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Book SynopsisA collection of essays that discuss the assumptions, ideas, and practices that constituted the intimate lives of men and women in the ancient Mediterranean world. It also demonstrates the importance of the History of Sexuality for fields as diverse as Greco-Roman antiquity, women's history, cultural studies, philosophy, and modern sexuality.
Trade Review"Ultimately, this collection of essays represents a turning point in classical scholarship, in that it calls for an examination of what classics as a discipline might do if it would admit Foucault into the realm of philology."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Situating The History of Sexuality31Taking the Sex Out of Sexuality: Foucault's Failed History422Incipit Philosophia613The Subject in Antiquity after Foucault854This Myth Which Is Not One: Construction of Discourse in Plato's Symposium1045Pandora Unbound: A Feminist Critique of Foucault's History of Sexuality1226Foucault's History of Sexuality: A Useful Theory for Women?1387Catullan Consciousness, the "Care of the Self," and the Force of the Negative in History1718Reversals of Platonic Love in Petronius' Satyricon204Bibliography229Contributors247Index249
