The experiences of Tiresias
the feminine and the Greek man
by Nicole Loraux
Nicole Loraux has devoted much of her writing to charting the paths of the Greek "imaginary," revealing a collective masculine psyche fraught with ambivalence as it tries to grasp the differences between nature and culture, body and soul, woman and man. The Experiences of Tiresias, its title referring to the shepherd struck blind after glimpsing Athena's naked body, captures this ambivalence in exploring how the Greek male defines himself in relationship to the feminine.
In these essays Loraux disturbs the idea of virile men and feminine women, a distinction found in official discourse and aimed at protecting the ideals of male identity from any taint of the feminine. Turning to epic and to Socrates, however, she insists on a logic of inclusiveness between the genders, which casts a shadow over their clear, officially defined borders.
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Civilization, Femininity, Masculinity, Sex role, Greece, civilization, to 146 b.c., Sex role--greece, Hq1073.5.g8 l6713 1995, 155.3/3Places
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Experiences of Tiresias: The Feminine and the Greek Man
2016, Princeton University Press
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1997, Princeton University Press
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The experiences of Tiresias: the feminine and the Greek man
1995, Princeton University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-338) and index.
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