Gender: Antiquity and Its Legacy

by Brooke Holmes

Book Overview

Gender has now become a pervasive topic in the humanities and social sciences. Yet despite its familiarity within universities and colleges, some have argued that the radical debates which first characterized gender studies have become ghettoized or marginalized -- so that gender no longer makes the impact on creative thinking and ideas that it once did. Brooke Holmes here rescues ancient ideas about sex and gender in order precisely to reinvigorate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195380835
• ISBN13: 9780195380835
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.3"