Rethinking Sexuality

ISBN 10: 0691016798 / ISBN 13: 9780691016795

Published by Princeton University Press, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Rethinking Sexuality

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Publication Date: 1997

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis:

Rethinking Sexuality A collection of essays that discuss the assumptions, ideas, and practices that constituted the intimate lives of men and women in the ancient Mediterranean world. It also demonstrates the importance of the "History of Sexuality" for fields as diverse as Greco-Roman antiquity, women's history, cultural studies, philosophy, and modern sexuality. Full description

Review:

"This volume of rich and varied essays offers a range of stimulating insights into Foucault's encounters with classical antiquity on matters of sexuality and the body.... Not least among the virtues of this collection is the close analysis of literary and philosophical works by some of the best-known classical authors of Greece and Rome, such as Sappho, Plato, Petronius, and Catullus, read here with and against Foucault's ideas."--Froma I. Zeitlin, Princeton University

"Ultimately, this collection of essays represents a turning point in classical scholarship, in that it calls for an examination of what classics as a discipline might do if it would admit Foucault into the realm of philology."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review