The Resource The experiences of Tiresias: the feminine and the Greek man
The experiences of Tiresias: the feminine and the Greek man
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The item The experiences of Tiresias: the feminine and the Greek man represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool.
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- Summary
- Nicole Loraux has devoted much of her writing to charting the paths of the Greek "imaginary," revealing a collective masculine psyche fraught with ambivalence as it tries to grasp the differences between nature and culture, body and soul, woman and man. The Experiences of Tiresias, its title referring to the shepherd struck blind after glimpsing Athena's naked body, captures this ambivalence in exploring how the Greek male defines himself in relationship to the feminine. In these essays Loraux disturbs the idea of virile men and feminine women, a distinction found in official discourse and aimed at protecting the ideals of male identity from any taint of the feminine. Turning to epic and to Socrates, however, she insists on a logic of inclusiveness between the genders, which casts a shadow over their clear, officially defined borders
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- viii, 348 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction: The feminine operator
- Part 1. Women, men, and afflictioin
- 1. Bed and war
- 2. Ponos: Some difficulties regarding the term for "labor"
- Part 2. The weeknesses of strength
- 3. The Spartans' "beautiful death"
- 4. The warrior's fear and trembling
- 5. The wounds of virility
- 6. The strangled body
- 7. Herakles: The supermale and the feminine
- Part 3. Socrates is a man (philosophical interlude)
- 8. Therefore, Socrates is immortal
- 9. Socrates, Plato, Herakles: A heroic paradigm of the philosopher
- Part 4. What woman?
- 10. And the mothers' case dismissed
- 11. The phantom of sexuality
- 12. What Tiresias saw
- Conclusion: Feminine nature in history
- Isbn
- 9780691029856
- Label
- The experiences of Tiresias: the feminine and the Greek man
- Title
- The experiences of Tiresias: the feminine and the Greek man
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Nicole Loraux has devoted much of her writing to charting the paths of the Greek "imaginary," revealing a collective masculine psyche fraught with ambivalence as it tries to grasp the differences between nature and culture, body and soul, woman and man. The Experiences of Tiresias, its title referring to the shepherd struck blind after glimpsing Athena's naked body, captures this ambivalence in exploring how the Greek male defines himself in relationship to the feminine. In these essays Loraux disturbs the idea of virile men and feminine women, a distinction found in official discourse and aimed at protecting the ideals of male identity from any taint of the feminine. Turning to epic and to Socrates, however, she insists on a logic of inclusiveness between the genders, which casts a shadow over their clear, officially defined borders
- Cataloging source
- UkLiU
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Loraux, Nicole
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Sex role
- Femininity (Psychology)
- Masculinity (Psychology)
- Greece
- Label
- The experiences of Tiresias: the feminine and the Greek man
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-338) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: The feminine operator -- Part 1. Women, men, and afflictioin -- 1. Bed and war -- 2. Ponos: Some difficulties regarding the term for "labor" -- Part 2. The weeknesses of strength -- 3. The Spartans' "beautiful death" -- 4. The warrior's fear and trembling -- 5. The wounds of virility -- 6. The strangled body -- 7. Herakles: The supermale and the feminine -- Part 3. Socrates is a man (philosophical interlude) -- 8. Therefore, Socrates is immortal -- 9. Socrates, Plato, Herakles: A heroic paradigm of the philosopher -- Part 4. What woman? -- 10. And the mothers' case dismissed -- 11. The phantom of sexuality -- 12. What Tiresias saw -- Conclusion: Feminine nature in history
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- viii, 348 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691029856
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- The experiences of Tiresias: the feminine and the Greek man
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-338) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: The feminine operator -- Part 1. Women, men, and afflictioin -- 1. Bed and war -- 2. Ponos: Some difficulties regarding the term for "labor" -- Part 2. The weeknesses of strength -- 3. The Spartans' "beautiful death" -- 4. The warrior's fear and trembling -- 5. The wounds of virility -- 6. The strangled body -- 7. Herakles: The supermale and the feminine -- Part 3. Socrates is a man (philosophical interlude) -- 8. Therefore, Socrates is immortal -- 9. Socrates, Plato, Herakles: A heroic paradigm of the philosopher -- Part 4. What woman? -- 10. And the mothers' case dismissed -- 11. The phantom of sexuality -- 12. What Tiresias saw -- Conclusion: Feminine nature in history
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- viii, 348 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691029856
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
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