Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World: Readings and Sources

by Laura K. McClure (Editor)

This volume provides essays that represent a range of perspectives on women, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, tracing the debates from the late 1960s to the late 1990s.

Genres: Nonfiction, History, Classical Studies, Classics, Academic

336 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Laura Kathleen McClure has been Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin since 2003.

Research: Athenian Drama, Ancient Gender Studies, Classical Tradition

Reviews

[Kyo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some excellent essays (especially Zeitlin's intriguing analysis of gender in tragedy/on stage) and overall interesting to read!

[meg (the.hidden.colophon) · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this for Gender & Sexuality in the Ancient World in Spring ‘25.

[Allyson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not for the faint of heart, I found this collection of essays to be at times gripping and at others mind-numbingly dull. I'd hoped to find more here on gender variance and deviation from gender norms in ancient Greece and Rome. Instead I found a wholly conventional approach to the subject of gender, with the lion's share of attention given to the problem of the absence of women's voices in the first person among the remaining cultural artifacts. I'm eager to take what I learned here, however, and apply it to my project of reading through Plato.

[chiara and ric · Rating 4 out of 5]

great teaching resource; next time i will use it as a textbook i think