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THE RHETORICITY OF GENDER AND THE IDEAL OF MEDIOCRITAS IN VITRUVIUS’S DE ARCHITECTURA

WILLIAMS, CRAIG A.

Arethusa, 2016-04, Vol.49 (2), p.227-249 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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THE RHETORICITY OF GENDER AND THE IDEAL OF MEDIOCRITAS IN VITRUVIUS’S DE ARCHITECTURA
Autor: WILLIAMS, CRAIG A.
Assuntos: Architecture ; Gender ; Romance literature ; Semiotics ; Sex role in literature ; Terminology ; Vitruvius (Marcus Vitruvius Pollio) ; Vitruvius Pollio ; Women ; Women in literature ; Writers
É parte de: Arethusa, 2016-04, Vol.49 (2), p.227-249
Descrição: In her interpretation of Vitruvius' presentation of domestic architecture in Book 6 of de Architectura, Kristina Milnor argues that "the one place we might expect to find Roman women, the house, has been emptied of gender by Vitruvius, leaving it as a strikingly hypermasculine space, built to speak to and about men alone." The incisive formulation raises the question of what we mean by "gender." In analyses like Milnor's, the term refers to the physical and symbolic presence of women; if that presence is ignored or erased, there is no gender. In another sense of the word, however, gender refers not only to the range of cultural meanings and social practices having to do with women, but also to the semiotic systems having to do with femininity and masculinity which inform and are intertwined with those practices. Here, Williams explores some of the textual mechanisms of gender in Vitruvius, not just in Book 6, but throughout de Architectura.
Editor: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Idioma: Inglês

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