CLAS 362, "Women
and Gender in Antiquity"
Fall Semester 2007
Instructor: Marilyn B. Skinner (mskinner@u.arizona.edu)
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Ancient Mediterranean gender systems provide a
historically distanced model for understanding how social constructions of
masculinity and femininity necessarily reflect a wide array of other cultural
assumptions and how gender roles affect the lives and behaviors of individuals.
This course will introduce you to classical Egyptian, Greek and Roman views of
gender and sexuality and demonstrate their function in shaping the historical
circumstances of women’s existence. From learning about the past, you may
gain new insights into sexual difference as it operates within our own culture.
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