Fashioning the Feminine in the Greek NovelPsychology Press, 2003 - 214 pagini The Greek novel occupies a special place in the debate on gender in antiquity, forcing us to ask why the female protagonists are such strong and positive characters. This book rejects the hypothesis of a largely female readership, and also sees a problem in ascribing this pattern to the reflection of a blanket improvement in the status of women. Katharine Haynes shows that the strong heroines are best understood not as an undistorted mirror on an improved social reality, but as a type of 'constructed feminine'. |
Cuprins
Reading the feminine | 1 |
Readers of the feminine? | 2 |
How to read the feminine | 10 |
Contextualising the feminine | 18 |
Using the feminine the pagan context | 19 |
Using the feminine the Christian context | 30 |
Heroines | 44 |
Kallirhoe | 46 |
Minor female characters | 101 |
The female antagonists | 102 |
Mothers | 115 |
Confidantes | 123 |
Marginal female characters | 130 |
Minor male characters | 137 |
Fathers | 143 |
Friends | 150 |
Anthia | 51 |
Leukippe | 56 |
Chloe | 61 |
Charikleia | 67 |
Interpretative strategies | 73 |
Heroes | 81 |
Constructions of novelistic heroism | 83 |
Interpretative strategies | 93 |
The male landscape minor characters and collectives | 154 |
Telos | 156 |
Maintenance of the social order | 157 |
Subversion of the social order? | 159 |
Notes | 163 |
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