Mothers in Mourning: Moral and Legal Issues

by Nicole Loraux

Book Overview

"Nicole Loraux brilliantly elucidates how Athenian politics were 'gendered' in the Classical period. She investigates the Athenian state's interdiction of ritualized mourning by women, in a city where public mourning constituted a vital act of civic self-definition and solidarity. "As Loraux shows, the silencing and exclusion of female--especially maternal--claims to a crucial relationship with the city's fallen war heroes served, and was reinforced...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801482429
• ISBN13: 9780801482427
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher