TY - BOOK ID - 1766629 TI - The rhetoric of gender terms PY - 1992 VL - 120 SN - 9004095128 9004329161 9789004095120 9789004329164 PB - Leiden ;New York Brill DB - UniCat KW - Lexicology. Semantics KW - Classical Latin literature KW - Literary rhetorics KW - Classical Latin language KW - Characters and characteristics in literature KW - Latin prose literature KW - Rhetoric, Ancient KW - Sex KW - Sex role in literature KW - Personnages dans la littérature KW - Prose latine KW - Rhétorique ancienne KW - Sexualité KW - Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature KW - History and criticism KW - Terminology KW - Histoire et critique KW - Terminologie KW - Rome KW - Rome dans la littérature KW - In literature KW - Characters and characteristics in literature. KW - Sex role in literature. KW - Rhetoric, Ancient. KW - History and criticism. KW - Terminology. KW - -Rhetoric, Ancient KW - Rome in literature KW - -Sex role in literature KW - Gender (Sex) KW - Human beings KW - Human sexuality KW - Sex (Gender) KW - Sexual behavior KW - Sexual practices KW - Sexuality KW - Sexology KW - Classical languages KW - Greek language KW - Greek rhetoric KW - Latin language KW - Latin rhetoric KW - Latin literature KW - Character sketches KW - Characterization (Literature) KW - Literary characters KW - Literary portraits KW - Portraits, Literary KW - Rhetoric KW - Rome in literature. KW - Personnages dans la littérature KW - Rhétorique ancienne KW - Sexualité KW - Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature KW - Rome dans la littérature KW - Antiquity KW - Ancient rhetoric KW - In literature. KW - Latin prose literature. KW - Literature. KW - Sex. KW - Belles-lettres KW - Western literature (Western countries) KW - World literature KW - Philology KW - Authors KW - Authorship KW - Rome (Empire) KW - Rim KW - Roman Empire KW - Roman Republic KW - Romi (Empire) KW - Byzantine Empire KW - Italy KW - Latin prose literature - History and criticism. KW - Sex - Terminology. KW - Rhetorique KW - Gender roles KW - Literature KW - Language use KW - Images of women KW - Book UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1766629 AB - The aim of this work is to recover classical Roman assumptions about women on the basis of the surviving linguistic data. The author provides a control to her study of the connotations of the major Latin words for women in the form of a corresponding examination of how Roman authors use the various words for men. The resulting analysis throws light not only on Roman gender vocabulary but also on Roman cultural perceptions of class, moral worth and nationality. Furthermore, the author's detailed discussions of strictly linguistic evidence enable her to offer several original and persuasive insights about the traditional Latin literary representation of women. Understanding the connotative range of gender terms such as homo , vir , femina , mulier also reveals the value judgments made by ancient authors on male and female behaviour and can even be applied as a tool of historical analysis. ER -