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Naked Truths : Women, Sexuality Gender in Classical Art Archaeology
Naked Truths Women Sexuality Gender in Classical Art Archaeology Author:Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow Now available on paperback, Naked Truths explores the portrayal of sexual difference and gender roles in Greco-Roman art and architecture. Applying a feminist approach to a wide range of classical works, this unique book offers a fresh new perspective on the art, history and culture of the ancient and modern world, including issues such a... more »s: * the dynamics of female beauty and male violence in early Italian society
* portrayals of nursing mothers in Etruscan and Greek art
* the nude cult status of the Knidian Aphrodite
* Clytemnastra and the iconography of transgression
* images of Sappho in Greek vase painting
* mortal and divine sexuality in the Parthenon frieze
* voyeuristic intercations inspired by the figure of the hermaphrodite
* the role of desire and desirability in understanding sex and gender in the ancient world, and more.« less