From don.fowler@jesus.oxford.ac.uk Sun Feb 21 14:56:43 1999 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.2+UW99.01/8.9.2+UW99.01) with ESMTP id OAA09518 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 14:56:42 -0800 Received: from oxmail.ox.ac.uk (oxmail3.ox.ac.uk [163.1.2.9]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with ESMTP id OAA02676 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 14:56:42 -0800 Received: from ermine.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.2.13]) by oxmail.ox.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 10EcNW-0000qz-00 for classics@u.washington.edu; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 17:09:14 +0000 Received: from dpf (helo=localhost) by ermine.ox.ac.uk with local-smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10EcMD-0006fW-00 for classics@u.washington.edu; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 17:07:53 +0000 Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 17:07:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Don Fowler To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Women in Greece and Rome In-Reply-To: <36D03458.5445@cloud9.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, J.F. Gannon wrote: > I must say that when I read > the course proposal I found it unexceptionable except for the reference > to 'feminist methodologies'--I really do not know what that means, but > perhaps that supports JH's point that there is ignorance around here and > there. I'm surprised that one should be allowed to play this particular version of humiliation in Classics, when much of the best work in the subject over the last few years has employed a wide variety of different feminist methodologies. But let me combine this with a plug. The course description for the Oxford M. St. in Women's Studies (Oxford is probably the last place in the Western World where the subject appeared) at URL http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/gao/info/ws.htm includes a very helpful reading list on feminist theory AND methodology. Robin Osborne teaches the 'gaze' section, and I should have thought that Classical Art History is a paradigm case here. Obviously classicists teaching about ancient women should have some knowledge of modern feminist theory (but that was, I think, built into Jim Butricca's proposal). We don't have to be experts: but anyone who has not read say Cixous, Irigaray, Kristeva, and Judith Butler will miss an awful lot of interesting and exciting ideas when they come to talk about "women in literature". Don *************************************************************************** * Don Fowler, Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Jesus College, Oxford OX1 3DW.* * Don.Fowler@Jesus.ox.ac.uk, Telephone (01865) 279700, Fax (01865) 279687.* * Home Page: http://jesus.ox.ac.uk/~dpf/ * * Classics at Oxford: http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk * *************************************************************************** .