TY - BOOK ID - 28193982 TI - Roman sexualities AU - HALLETT, Judith P. AU - SKINNER, Marylin B. PY - 1997 SN - 0691011788 0691011796 0691219540 PB - Princeton : Princeton University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Sex customs KW - Sex in literature. KW - Classical literature. KW - Feminist criticism. KW - History. KW - Rome KW - In literature. KW - Social life and customs. KW - Classical literature KW - Feminist criticism KW - Sex in literature KW - Customs, Sex KW - Human beings KW - Sexual behavior KW - Sexual practices KW - Manners and customs KW - Moral conditions KW - Sex KW - Criticism KW - Literature, Classical KW - Literature KW - Literature, Ancient KW - Greek literature KW - Latin literature KW - History KW - Bakhtin, M. KW - Bal, M. KW - Boatwright, M. T. KW - Brown, P. KW - Callimachus. KW - Cantarella, E. KW - Cohen, D. KW - Colin, J. KW - Dean-Jones, L. KW - Dickison, S. KW - Dover, K. J. KW - Edwards, C. KW - Foucault, M. KW - Fredrick, D. KW - Galen. KW - Gleason, M. KW - Golden, M. KW - Hallett, J. P. KW - Halperin, D. M. KW - Jane Eyre. KW - Kennedy, D. F. KW - Konstan, D. KW - Levick, B. KW - MacMullen, R. KW - Newton, E. KW - Oliensis, E. KW - Ortner, S. B. KW - Parker, H. KW - Quinn, K. KW - Richlin, A. KW - Sedgwick, E. KW - Sulpicia. KW - Trachtenberg, J. KW - Veyne, P. KW - adultery. KW - anthropology. KW - dancing. KW - fellatio. KW - honor. KW - infidelity. KW - luxury. KW - masculinity. KW - motherhood. KW - nature. KW - passivity. KW - power: imperial. KW - psychoanalysis. KW - Sexualitet KW - Sexualitet i litteraturen KW - Sex customs. KW - Manners and customs. KW - Rome in literature. KW - Ceremonies KW - Customs, Social KW - Folkways KW - Social customs KW - Social life and customs KW - Traditions KW - Usages KW - Civilization KW - Ethnology KW - Etiquette KW - Rites and ceremonies KW - historia KW - Rome (Empire) KW - Rim KW - Roman Empire KW - Roman Republic KW - Romi (Empire) KW - Byzantine Empire KW - Italy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:28193982 AB - This collection of essays seeks to establish Roman constructions of sexuality and gender difference as a distinct area of research, complementing work already done on Greece to give a fuller picture of ancient sexuality. By applying feminist critical tools to forms of public discourse, including literature, history, law, medicine, and political oratory, the essays explore the hierarchy of power reflected so strongly in most Roman sexual relations, where noblemen acted as the penetrators and women, boys, and slaves the penetrated. In many cases, the authors show how these roles could be inverted--in ways that revealed citizens' anxieties during the days of the early Empire, when traditional power structures seemed threatened. In the essays, Jonathan Walters defines the impenetrable male body as the ideational norm; Holt Parker and Catharine Edwards treat literary and legal models of male sexual deviance; Anthony Corbeill unpacks political charges of immoral behavior at banquets, while Marilyn B. Skinner, Ellen Oliensis, and David Fredrick trace linkages between social status and the gender role of the male speaker in Roman lyric and elegy; Amy Richlin interrogates popular medical belief about the female body; Sandra R. Joshel examines the semiotics of empire underlying the historiographic portrayal of the empress Messalina; Judith P. Hallett and Pamela Gordon critique Roman caricatures of the woman-desiring woman; and Alison Keith discovers subversive allusions to the tragedy of Dido in the elegist Sulpicia's self-depiction as a woman in love. ER -