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Laughing with Medusa: Classical Myth and Feminist Thought
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Laughing with Medusa: Classical Myth and Feminist Thought Paperback - 2008

by Miriam Leonard (Editor); Vanda Zajko (Editor)


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Laughing with Medusa explores a series of interlinking questions, including: Does history's self-positioning as the successor of myth result in the exclusion of alternative narratives of the past? How does feminism exclude itself from certain historical discourses? Why has psychoanalysis placed myth at the centre of its explorations of the modern subject? Why are the Muses feminine? Do the categories of myth and politics intersect or are they mutually exclusive? Does feminism's recourse to myth offer a script of resistance or commit it to an ineffective utopianism? Covering a wide range of subject areas including poetry, philosophy, science, history, and psychoanalysis as well as classics, this book engages with these questions from a truly interdisciplinary perspective. It includes a specially commisssioned work of fiction, Iphigeneia's Wedding', by the poet Elizabeth Cook.

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Monique Wittig and Elizabeth Cook, in their respective rewritings of Homer, typify two different modes of feminism's engagement with classical myth.

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  • Title Laughing with Medusa: Classical Myth and Feminist Thought
  • Author Miriam Leonard (Editor); Vanda Zajko (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 460
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher OUP Oxford, 2008. 460p. Paperback. Series: Classical Presences.
  • Date 2008-03-15
  • ISBN 9780199237944 / 0199237948
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 1 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Greece
  • Dewey Decimal Code 809

About the author


Vanda Zajko is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol.
Miriam Leonard is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol.
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