Resource suggestions for Women Studies and LGBTQ+ topics for Classical History

by IWantThatBootyTom

I took a “Women in the Classical World” class and want to follow up on what was covered in my own time.

I’m following up with the professor but want to know what the folks here think.

Llyngeir

Here are some resources for the study of women in Archaic Greece, and unless specified these can all be found on JSTOR:

  • L. Kurke, ‘Inventing the Hetaira: Sex, Politics and Discursive Conflict in Archaic Greece’, Classical Antiquity, vol. 16 (1997), 106-150
  • D. Cohen, ‘Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Ancient Greece’, Classical Philology, vol. 87 (1992), 145-160
  • E. Dodson-Robinson, ‘Helen’s “Judgement of Paris” and Greek Marriage Ritual in Sappho 16’, Arethusa, vol. 43 (2010), 1-20
  • I. Morris, ‘Archaeology and Gender Ideologies in Early Archaic Greece’, Transactions of the American Philological Association, vol. 129 (1999), 305-317
  • H. van Wees, ‘The Invention of the Female Mind’ [can be found on van Wees' Academia page]
  • H. van Wees, ‘A Brief History of Tears: Gender Differentiation in Archaic Greece’, in L. Foxhall, and J. Salmon (eds.) When Men Were Men: Masculinity, Power and Identity in Classical Antiquity (London, 1998), 10-53 [van Wees' Academia page]
  • D. Obbink, ‘Two New Poems by Sappho’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, vol. 189 (2014), 32-49
  • M. B. Arthur, ‘Cultural Strategies in Hesiod’s Theogony: Law, Family, Society’, Arethusa, vol. 15 (1982), 63-82
  • M. B. Arthur, ‘The Dream of a World Without Women: Poetics and the Circle of Order in the Theogony ‘Prooemium’, Arethusa, vol. 16 (1983), 97-116
  • T. van Noortwick, ‘Like a Woman: Hector and the Boundaries of Masculinity’, Arethusa, vol. 34 (2001), 221-235
  • C. Franco, ‘Women in Homer’, in S. James, and S. Dillon (eds.) A Companion to Women in the Ancient World (London, 2012), 54-65 [found on Franco's Academia page]

I hope these are helpful. I'd recommend 'The Invention of the Female Mind' as a good introduction, van Wees does a pretty comprehensive overview of Archaic Greek literature regarding women.

I'd love to know what your professor suggested!