Nancy Rabinowitz

Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World Nancy Rabinowitz

Commendation Quotes: This book is the most thorough account of female homoerotic materials from the ancient Mediterranean I have yet seen in English. . . . I can easily see it becoming a standard work on ancient female homoeroticism. Table of Contents: Abbreviations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz 2. Imag(in)ing a Women's World in Bronze Age Greece: The Frescoes from Xeste 3 at Akrotiri, Thera Paul Rehak 3. Aphrodite Garlanded: Eros and Poetic Creativity in Sappho and Nossis Marilyn B. Skinner 4. Subjects, Objects, and Erotic Symmetry in Sappho's Fragments Ellen Greene 5. Excavating Female Homoeroticism in Ancient Greece: The Evidence from Attic Vase Painting Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz 6. Women in Relief: "Double Consciousness" in Classical Attic Tombstones John G. Younger 7. Glimpses through a Window: An Approach to Roman Female Homoeroticism through Art Historical and Literary Evidence Lisa Auanger 8. Ovid's Iphis and Ianthe: When Girls Won't Be Girls Diane T. Pintabone 9. Lucian's "Leaena and Clonarium": Voyeurism or a Challenge to Assumptions? Shelley P. Haley 10. "Friendship and Physical Desire": The Discourse of Female Homoeroticism in Fifth-Century CE Egypt Terry G. Wilfong Works Cited Notes on Contributors IndexMarc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; These essays examine a wide variety of textual and archaeological evidence for women's homosocial and homoerotic relationships from prehistoric Greece to 5th-century CE Egypt. Publisher Marketing: These essays examine a wide variety of textual and archaeological evidence for women's homosocial and homoerotic relationships from prehistoric Greece to 5th-century CE Egypt.

Contributor Bio:  Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz is the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College, where she teaches tragedy, modern drama, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction. She is the author of "Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women" (1993), as well as the co-editor of "Feminist Theory and the Classics" (1993), "Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World "(2002), and "Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides" (1998), for which she translated Euripides' "Alcestis,"