The Resource Sexing the world : grammatical gender and biological sex in ancient Rome, Anthony Corbeill
Sexing the world : grammatical gender and biological sex in ancient Rome, Anthony Corbeill
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- Summary
- From the moment a child in ancient Rome began to speak Latin, the surrounding world became populated with objects possessing grammatical gender-masculine eyes (oculi), feminine trees (arbores), neuter bodies (corpora). Sexing the World surveys the many ways in which grammatical gender enabled Latin speakers to organize aspects of their society into sexual categories, and how this identification of grammatical gender with biological sex affected Roman perceptions of Latin poetry, divine power, and the human hermaphrodite. Beginning with the ancient grammarians, Anthony Corbeill examines how these scholars used the gender of nouns to identify the sex of the object being signified, regardless of whether that object was animate or inanimate. This informed the Roman poets who, for a time, changed at whim the grammatical gender for words as seemingly lifeless as "dust" (pulvis) or "tree bark" (cortex). Corbeill then applies the idea of fluid grammatical gender to the basic tenets of Roman religion and state politics. He looks at how the ancients tended to construct Rome's earliest divinities as related male and female pairs, a tendency that waned in later periods. An analogous change characterized the dual-sexed hermaphrodite, whose sacred and political significance declined as the republican government became an autocracy. Throughout, Corbeill shows that the fluid boundaries of sex and gender became increasingly fixed into opposing and exclusive categories. Sexing the World contributes to our understanding of the power of language to shape human perception
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Contents
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- Latin grammatical gender is not arbitrary
- Roman scholars on grammatical gender and biological sex
- Roman poets on grammatical gender
- Poetic play with sex and gender
- Androgynous gods in archaic Rome
- Appendix to chapter 4: male/female pairs of deities
- The prodigious hermaphrodite
- Isbn
- 9781400852468
- Label
- Sexing the world : grammatical gender and biological sex in ancient Rome
- Title
- Sexing the world
- Title remainder
- grammatical gender and biological sex in ancient Rome
- Statement of responsibility
- Anthony Corbeill
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- From the moment a child in ancient Rome began to speak Latin, the surrounding world became populated with objects possessing grammatical gender-masculine eyes (oculi), feminine trees (arbores), neuter bodies (corpora). Sexing the World surveys the many ways in which grammatical gender enabled Latin speakers to organize aspects of their society into sexual categories, and how this identification of grammatical gender with biological sex affected Roman perceptions of Latin poetry, divine power, and the human hermaphrodite. Beginning with the ancient grammarians, Anthony Corbeill examines how these scholars used the gender of nouns to identify the sex of the object being signified, regardless of whether that object was animate or inanimate. This informed the Roman poets who, for a time, changed at whim the grammatical gender for words as seemingly lifeless as "dust" (pulvis) or "tree bark" (cortex). Corbeill then applies the idea of fluid grammatical gender to the basic tenets of Roman religion and state politics. He looks at how the ancients tended to construct Rome's earliest divinities as related male and female pairs, a tendency that waned in later periods. An analogous change characterized the dual-sexed hermaphrodite, whose sacred and political significance declined as the republican government became an autocracy. Throughout, Corbeill shows that the fluid boundaries of sex and gender became increasingly fixed into opposing and exclusive categories. Sexing the World contributes to our understanding of the power of language to shape human perception
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- 1960-
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- Corbeill, Anthony
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- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
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- Latin literature
- Latin language
- Gender identity in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- HISTORY
- Gender identity in literature
- Latin language
- Latin literature
- Label
- Sexing the world : grammatical gender and biological sex in ancient Rome, Anthony Corbeill
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- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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- online resource
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- Contents
- Latin grammatical gender is not arbitrary -- Roman scholars on grammatical gender and biological sex -- Roman poets on grammatical gender -- Poetic play with sex and gender -- Androgynous gods in archaic Rome -- Appendix to chapter 4: male/female pairs of deities -- The prodigious hermaphrodite
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- 1 online resource
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- online
- Isbn
- 9781400852468
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- computer
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- c
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- JSTOR
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- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)896123213
- Label
- Sexing the world : grammatical gender and biological sex in ancient Rome, Anthony Corbeill
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Latin grammatical gender is not arbitrary -- Roman scholars on grammatical gender and biological sex -- Roman poets on grammatical gender -- Poetic play with sex and gender -- Androgynous gods in archaic Rome -- Appendix to chapter 4: male/female pairs of deities -- The prodigious hermaphrodite
- Control code
- ocn896123213
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781400852468
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt86chpw
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)896123213
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