Sandra Boehringer

"This groundbreaking study, among the earliest syntheses on female homosexuality throughout antiquity, explores the topic with careful reference to ancient concepts and views, drawing fully on the existing visual and written record including literary, philosophical, and scientific documents. Even today, ancient female homosexuals are still too often seen in terms of a mythical, ethereal Sapphic love, or stereotyped as "Amazons" or courtesans. Boehringer's scholarly book replaces these clichâes with rigorous, precise analysis of iconography and texts by Sappho, Plato, Ovid, Juvenal, and many other lyric poets, satirists, and medical writers, in search of the prevailing norms, constraints, and possibilities for erotic desire. The portrait emerges of an ancient society to which today's sexual categories do not apply - a society "before sexuality" - where female homosexuality looks very different, but is nonetheless very real. Now available in English for the first time, Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome includes a preface by David Halperin. The book will be of value to students and scholars of ancient sexuality and gender, and to anyone interested in histories and theories of sexuality"--

Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome

Cette synthèse des relations sexuelles entre femmes dans le monde antique est fondée sur l'analyse précise de documents iconographiques et littéraires. L'auteur esquisse la cartographie d'un système antique de genre, révélant une organisation sociale fortement codifiée.

L'homosexualité féminine dans l'antiquité grecque et romaine

Daniele Lorenzini

Foucault, Sexuality, Antiquity, published for the first time in English, takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring how the work of Michel Foucault has influenced studies of ancient Greece and Rome. Foucault’s The History of Sexuality has had a profound and lasting impact across the humanities and social sciences. In the two volumes dedicated to pagan antiquity, Foucault provided scholars with new questions for addressing ancient Greek and Roman societies, and an original epistemological framework for thinking about eroticism and about the processes by which individuals are led to recognize themselves as the subjects of their desires. Now, decades later, the scholars in this volume explore Foucault’s role in shaping and reorienting discussions of antiquity in the fields of philosophy, gender studies, and psychoanalysis, among others. A multidisciplinary exploration of Foucault’s work and its relationship to our understanding of ancient Greco-Roman societies, Foucault, Sexuality, Antiquity will be of interest to students and scholars in classical studies, philosophy, gender studies, and ancient history.

Foucault, Sexuality, Antiquity

Violaine Sebillotte Cuchet

Sandra Boehringer est maîtresse de conférences en histoire grecque à l’Université de Strasbourg. Violaine Sebillotte Cuchet est professeure d’histoire grecque à l’Université Paris 1. 1. Le genre, dans et pour l’Histoire 2. Une méthode d’analyse utile : documents commentés par une vingtaine de spécialistes de l’Antiquité 3. Parcours de lecture

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