Death is the new sex, last great taboo in Western society and Western medicine, as Richard Smith discusses in his editorial (p 129). In the trinity of births, marriages, and deaths, only death does not have glossy magazines devoted to stylish consumption at the attendant ceremonies. On the web, of course, …

Death and dying

The Symbolic Construction of Community

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Closing of the American Mind

Male-male social bonds have a powerful influence on the sexual relations of some young heterosexual men. Qualitative analysis among young men aged eighteen to twenty-six in Canberra, Australia, documents the homosocial organization of men's heterosexual relations. Homosociality organizes men's sociosexual relations in at least four ways. For some of these young men, male-male friendships take priority over male-female relations, and platonic friendships with women are dangerously feminizing. Sexual activity is a key path to masculine status, and other men are the audience, always imagined and sometimes real, for one's sexual activities. Heterosexual sex itself can be the medium through which male bonding is enacted. Last, men's sexual storytelling is shaped by homosocial masculine cultures. While these patterns were evident particularly among young men in the highly homosocial culture of a military academy, their presence also among other groups suggests the wider influence of homosociality on men's sexual and social relations.

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Men, Sex, and Homosociality How Bonds between Men Shape Their Sexual Relations with Women

The Construction of Homosexuality

What should we make of the prominence of female characters in the plays of Euripides? Not, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz concludes, that he was either a misogynist or a feminist before his time Tracking the relationship between male anxiety and female desire in his drama, she demonstrates in this rich and incisive book that Euripides' plays support a structure of male dominance while simultaneously inscribing female strength

Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women

1. Introduction Part I Redefining the Field 2. Black Feminist Thought and Classics 3. Feminist Theory, Historical Periods, Literary Canons and the Study of Greco-Roman Antiquity Part II Male Writing Female 4. Finding the Female in Roman Poetry 5. Film Theory and the Gendered Voice in Seneca Part III Gynocentrics 6. Women and Language in Archaic Greece 7. Using Native American Models for the Study of Women in Ancient Greece 8. Out of the Closet and into the Field Part IV Material Culture 9. The Case for not Ignoring Marx in the Study of Women in Antiquity 10. Feminist Research in Classical Arcaeology 11. The Ethnographer's Dilemma and the Dream of a Lost Golden Age

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Feminist Theory and the Classics

From Abortion to Pederasty

Introduction Nancy Sorkin RabinowitzImag(in)ing a Women's World in Bronze Age Greece: The Frescoes from Xeste 3 at Akrotiri, Thera Paul RehakAphrodite Garlanded: Eros and Poetic Creativity in Sappho and Nossis Marilyn B. Skinner University of ArizonaSubjects, Objects, and Erotic Symmetry in Sappho's Fragments Ellen GreeneExcavating Female Homoeroticism in Ancient Greece: The Evidence from Attic Vase Painting Nancy Sorkin RabinowitzWomen in Relief: "Double Consciousness" in Classical Attic Tombstones John G. Younger Duke UniversityGlimpses through a Window: An Approach to Roman Female Homoeroticism through Art Historical and Literary Evidence Lisa AuangerOvid's Iphis and Ianthe: When Girls Won't Be Girls Diane T. Pintabone University of southern CaliforniaLucian's "Leaena and Clonarium": Voyeurism or a Challenge to Assumptions? Shelley P. Haley Hamilton College"Friendship and Physical Desire": The Discourse of Female Homoeroticism in Fifth-Century CE Egypt Terry G. Wilfong University of MichiganWorks CitedNotes on ContributorsIndex

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

Looking at sex and sexuality from a variety of historical, sociological and theoretical perspectives, as represented in a variety of media, Sex in Antiquity represents a vibrant picture of ancient gender and sexuality studies, showcasing the work of leading international scholars as well as that of emerging talents and new voices.
 
Sexuality and gender in the ancient world is an area of research that has grown quickly with often sudden shifts in focus and theoretical standpoints. This volume contextualises these shifts while putting in place new ideas and avenues of exploration that further develop this lively field or set of disciplines. This broad study also includes studies of gender and sexuality in the Ancient Near East which not only provide rich consideration of those areas but also provide a comparative perspective not often found in such collections. Sex in Antiquity is a major contribution to the field of ancient gender and sexuality studies.

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Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz

Papers

Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women

Feminist Theory and the Classics

From Abortion to Pederasty

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

Sex in antiquity : exploring gender and sexuality in the ancient world