Female mobility and gendered space in ancient Greek myth
Goddesses on the move -- To move or not to move: the mobility of virgin goddesses -- Beginning from Hestia -- Athena's ride -- Artemis the huntress -- The mobility of Olympian wives and mothers -- Aphrodite's epic love affairs and her mobility -- The mobility of Demeter and other females i...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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London, UK New York, NY, USA
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Series/Journal: | Bloomsbury classical studies monographs
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| Further subjects: | B
Classical texts
B Gender studies: women B Greek literature B Mythology, Greek B LITERARY CRITICISM ; Ancient & Classical B Greek language B Goddesses, Greek, in literature B Goddesses, Greek B Greek literature History and criticism B Ancient Greek religion & mythology B Women in literature B Electronic books B Woman B Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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| Summary: | Goddesses on the move -- To move or not to move: the mobility of virgin goddesses -- Beginning from Hestia -- Athena's ride -- Artemis the huntress -- The mobility of Olympian wives and mothers -- Aphrodite's epic love affairs and her mobility -- The mobility of Demeter and other females in the Homeric hymn to Demeter -- Hera's mobility and her choice to remain immobile -- Heroines on the move -- Away from the paternal hearth: mobile heroines in Greek tragedy -- Mobile heroines in Greek tragedy -- Io in Prometheus bound: mobility and centrifugality -- The Danaids and Io in the geography of Suppliants -- Female mobility between myth and ritual -- Maenads at the mountain: the mobility of maenads and configurations of space in Euripides' Bacchae -- The space of the hunt in huntress myths and the Arkteia at Brauron -- From female mobility to gendered spaces: the limits of mythic imagination -- The limits of mythic imagination and of female mobility in myth -- "Glass walls" as the limits of female mobility. In recent decades, feminist geographers have advanced a better insight into gender dynamics by exploring how women interact with their surrounding space and their complex relationship to the household. Regarding ancient cultures, a reconsideration of gendered spaces and women's mobility is also taking place. This re-evaluation invites an informed analysis of how female mobility is mapped in Greek mythic thought, especially since the world of myth opens a window to social ideology and the imaginaire. Many female figures in myth enjoy a freedom of movement that appears to defy the Classical decorum of female immobility and invisibility inside the household. Drawing primarily on close readings of Archaic and Classical literary sources, Female Mobility and Gendered Space in Ancient Greek Myth explores a broad collection of female figures in Greek myth. It highlights aspects of female mobility and the construing of space in these narratives, thus offering the first book-length consideration of the intersection of gender, mobility and space in Greek myth. The book investigates the mythical narratives within their social context, seeking to reveal expressions of cultural ideology on gendered mobility. The close analysis of female characters' movement in their mythical landscapes thus offers a substantial contribution to our scholarly understanding of social attitudes towards female mobility in Greek culture.--Publisher description |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1474256775 |