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jor goddesses considered as types, with a bibliography of novels and plays and a list

of movies (on video), identifying characters that embody these types.

FEMINISM, HOMOSEXUALITY, AND GENDER

Bacchilega, Cristina. Gender and Narrative Strategies. University Park: University of Penn-
sylvania Press, 1997. The representation of women in four classic fairytales and post-
modern revisions in literature and film.
Clark, G. Women in the Ancient World. Greece and Rome Surveys 21. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1989.
Fantham, E. "Women in Antiquity: A Selective (and Subjective) Survey." Échos du Monde
Classique 30 (1986), pp. 1-24.

. Women in the Classical World: Image and Text. New York: Oxford University Press,
1994.
Foley, H. P., ed. Reflections of Women in Antiquity. New York: Gordon & Breach, 1981.
First published in Women's Studies 8, 1-2 (1981).
Fone, Byrne. Homophobia: A History. New York: Metropolitan Books (Henry Holt), 2000.
An important study, the first part of which deals with the ancient world.
Halperin, David M. One Hundred Years of Homosexuality, and Other Essays on Greek Love.
New York: Routledge, 1989. Argues that modern attitudes toward homosexuality are
inadequate for an understanding of sexual mores in the ancient world.
Hawley, Richard, and Levick, Barbara, eds. Women in Antiquity: New Assessments. New
York: Routledge, 1995. Includes discussion of women's roles in religious ritual and
mythology.
Lefkowitz, Mary R. Women in Greek Myth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,
1986.
Pomeroy, Sarah B. Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves. New York: Schocken, 1975. See
especially Chapters 2 and 6.
Sargent, B. Homosexuality in Greek Myth. London: Athlone Press, 1987.
Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin, and Richlin, Amy, eds. Feminist Theory and the Classics. New
York: Routledge, 1993. A collection of essays, some of which include approaches to
mythology.
Thornton, Bruce S. Eros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality. Boulder: Westview Press,
1997. An insightful exploration of the destructiveness of Eros in Greek imagery and
metaphor and the links between ancient and present-day attitudes and concerns
about sex, love, and family.
Williams, Craig A. Roman Homosexuality: Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical Antiquity.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Winkler, John J. Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece.
New York: Routledge, 1990. A study of the sexuality of women (e.g., Penelope and
Sappho) and the interpretation of rituals (e.g., in honor of Demeter, Aphrodite, and
Adonis).
Two scholarly journals, Arethusa and Helios, are especially receptive to feminist scholar-
ship. Arethusa 6 (1973) and 11 (1978) have been mostly reprinted in J. J. Peradotto and
J. P. Sullivan, eds., Women in the Ancient World: The Arethusa Papers (Albany: State Uni-
versity of New York, 1984). Helios 12, 2 (1985) contains a debate on "Classical Stud-
ies vs. Women's Studies," by Marilyn Skinner, Mary Lefkowitz, and Judith Hallett.