Theories vs. Practices in American and European Gender Studies in Antiquity
By Amy Richlin
When Juliet Mitchell called feminism "the longest revolution," she said a mouthful.
Ancient Gender Studies in Italy
By Frederica Bessone
Gender studies have developed in Italy since the mid-70’s in connection with the feminist movement. Influenced by French theory, they have predominantly focused on women’s history and culture. Universities have not recognized gender studies as an academic field until recently, due to the rigidity of our educational system and the weak position of women academics in the ’80s and ’90s.
Integrating Gender into North American Classical Studies: Challenges Ahead
By Judith P. Hallett
North American classicists have successfully integrated study of ancient Greco-Roman gender into their discipline and profession: as a methodologically evolving, intellectually expanding research realm, and vital component of many university classics curricula, often through undergraduate courses in translation for non-majors. My presentation considers challenges facing classical gender studies in North America, which the EuGeStA research alliance is helping address.
Ancient Gender Studies in Germany and Switzerland
By Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer
Serious study of ancient Greco-Roman women, informed by feminist theory and the recognition of gender as an important analytical concept, took hold in Germany twenty years ago. Research in ancient history, archaeology and philology initially advanced at different paces. Wagner-Hasel's historiographical investigations into the ideas of matriarchy and oriental seclusion galvanized ancient historians into questioning the idea of public and private in antiquity. German translation in the early 1990s of the works of Loraux and the Histoire des femmes, vol.
Ancient Gender Studies in the UK
By Helen King
Located both geographically and conceptually between the USA and Continental Europe, UK Classics has at times been strongly influenced or revived by approaches coming from parts of Europe: e.g. Germany (philology), France (structuralism). But the poor British record on modern language means that we tend to look toward the USA more.
Gender: A Transatlantic Perspective
By Giulia Sissa
In North American universities, gender studies rapidly received academic recognition. The social construction of gender in different cultures and historical contexts in its intersecions with race, ethnicity, or ability; the representation of multiple gender identities in various forms of knowledge; the normative discourse on femininity and masculinity; the history and anthropology of sexuality have found a robust institutional legitimacy here.
Classics and Gender Studies in 21st Century North America
By Barbara Gold
Since the 1970s North American study of gender in classical antiquity has undergone dramatic changes. Originally focused on representations of ancient Greco-Roman women, it has expanded to include masculinity and sexual identities. Innovative theoretical approaches--from humanities disciplines (narratology, new historicism) and the social sciences (cultural anthropology, linguistics)--have also proven influential, as have the new fields of Queer and Reception studies.
Ancient Gender Studies: The Situation in France
By Jacqueline Fabre-Serris
Academic research on women in France developed in connection with the militant feminism of the 1970s, and the social and political advances which resulted. In 1970 H. Cixous created a center of women's studies at Vincennes (Paris 8), where the founder of EuGeStA received her MA in French literature. The current director also oversees the GIS Institut de Genre, a major interdisciplinary project launched by the CNRS (Centre National de la recherche scientifique) in 2011.