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Book SynopsisFrom the moment a child in ancient Rome began to speak Latin, the surrounding world became populated with objects possessing grammatical gender--masculine eyes (oculi), feminine trees (arbores), neuter bodies (corpora). Sexing the World surveys the many ways in which grammatical gender enabled Latin speakers to organize aspects of their society int
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Latin Grammatical Gender Is Not Arbitrary 1 Chapter 1 Roman Scholars on Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex 12 Chapter 2 Roman Poets on Grammatical Gender 41 Chapter 3 Poetic Play with Sex and Gender 72 Chapter 4 Androgynous Gods in Archaic Rome 104 Appendix to Chapter 4: Male/Female Pairs of Deities 136 Chapter 5 The Prodigious Hermaphrodite 143 Abbreviations 171 Works Cited 173 Index Locorum 189 General Index 199
