{"product_id":"intimate-commerce-9780292791145","title":"Intimate Commerce","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn illuminating analysis of the exchange of women in Sophocles’ Trachiniae, Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, and Euripides’ Alcestis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An important new work from the perspective of gender (rather than exclusively feminist) theory, this volume should appeal to professors and graduate students in the classics.\"- Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction. Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Tragic Exchange\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReaffirmation, Resistance, Negotiation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Social Economy of Exchange\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Subject of Exchange\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart One. Sovereign Father and Female Subject in Sophocles’ \u003ci\u003eTrachiniae\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne. “The Noblest Law”: The Paternal Symbolic and Its Reluctant Subject\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Final Exchange\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHeracles: Subject under Siege\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHyllus: The Reluctant Ephebe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo. The Foreclosed Female Subject\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIole, Deianira, and the Triangle of Exchange\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eAnti dōrōn dōta\u003c\/i\u003e: Deianira’s Gift-Giving\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStatus and Gender\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Woman’s \u003ci\u003ekleos\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThree. Alterity and Intersubjectivity\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterpellation of the Other, Creation of the Self\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpatial Models of Self and Other: Pandora and \u003ci\u003ekalokagathia\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Virgin in the Garden\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart Two. The Violence of \u003ci\u003ekharis\u003c\/i\u003e In Aeschylus’s \u003ci\u003eAgamemnon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFour. The Commodity Fetish and the Agalmatization of the Virgin Daughter\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMarx and the Fetishized Economy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Occluded Exchange\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Agalmatization of the Virgin Daughter\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFive. \u003ci\u003eAgalma ploutou\u003c\/i\u003e: Accounting for Helen\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Disenchantment of the \u003ci\u003eagalma\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eKhrusamoibos sōmatōn\u003c\/i\u003e: The Commodification of the Male Subject\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSix. Fear and Pity: Clytemnestra and Cassandra\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eAndroboulon kear\u003c\/i\u003e: Clytemnestra’s Transgressive Identity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Lament for the Father\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart Three. Mourning and Matricide in Euripides’ \u003ci\u003eAlcestis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeven. The Shadow of the Object: Loss, Mourning, and Reparation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEight. Agonistic Identity and the Superlative Subject\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Matriarch of the \u003ci\u003eoikos\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAlcestis\u003c\/i\u003e’s Domestic Politics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Superlative Subject and Her Husband\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Tragedy to the Symposium\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNine. The Mirror of \u003ci\u003exenia\u003c\/i\u003e and the Paternal Symbolic\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Impossible \u003ci\u003ekharis\u003c\/i\u003e to the \u003ci\u003eagalma\u003c\/i\u003e Economy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003ephysis\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003epraxis\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHeracles and the Mirror of \u003ci\u003exenia\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Final Exchange\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion. Too Intimate Commerce\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeneral Index\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex Locorum\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400884199767,"sku":"9780292791145","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780292791145.jpg?v=1730471839","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/intimate-commerce-9780292791145","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}