Trop de clichés circulent sur la Grèce antique : les femmes y
seraient recluses, voilées ou loin des regards, dans un gynécée ; elles
n’auraient aucune fonction civique ou collective. Privées d’éducation ou
de culture, elles vivraient dans l’ombre des hommes, dans une cité
misogyne. Sans sous-estimer l’inégalité entre les hommes et les femmes,
cette exposition a pour objectif de proposer un autre regard sur la
Grèce antique (VIIe-IIe siècle av. J.-C.). En
intégrant les nouveaux acquis des travaux des philologues, des
épigraphistes et des archéologues, et en recourant aux outils récents de
la recherche en histoire des femmes et du genre, les historien.nes de
cette exposition permettront aux visiteurs de découvrir des champs
d’action et des domaines où les femmes antiques agissaient, géraient,
pensaient, créaient, aimaient.
Le genre, en tant que méthode
d’analyse qui postule l’historicité des catégories hommes/femmes et la
dimension sociale et culturelle des identités, permet de se défaire des
clichés et de percevoir ce qui fait la spécificité de la société
grecque : l’importance primordiale de la distinction libres/esclaves,
une définition différente du politique et la variété des contextes
d’action individuelle.
Clichés about ancient Greece abound. The conventional wisdom is that
women were cloistered—veiled or kept hidden from view in a gynaeceum,
unable to hold either civic office or public position. Deprived of
education and culture, they are said to have lived in the shadow of men,
in a misogynistic society. Without underestimating the inequality that
existed between men and women, the goal of this exhibit is to offer a
different view of ancient Greece (7th-2nd centuries B.C.). By
incorporating new findings from philologists, epigraphists, and
archeologists, and by drawing on recent tools from research on the
history of women and gender, this exhibit will allow visitors to
discover the spheres of action and domains in which women of ancient
Greece acted, supervised, thought, created, and loved. Gender, as an
analytic tool that posits the historicity of the categories “man” and
“woman” as well as the social and cultural dimension of identities,
allows us to go beyond clichés and to understand the particularities of
Greek society: the fundamental importance of the distinction between
slaves and free people, a definition of politics different from our own,
and a variety of contexts for individual action.
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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