misogynist feminism? aristophanes’ ladies’ day. quote “there is no gender identity behind the...
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Misogynist Feminism?
Aristophanes’ Ladies’ Day
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Quote
“There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very
‘expressions’ that are said to be its results” (Butler Gender Trouble)
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Does Ladies’ Day deconstruct or affirm “identities”/stereotypes?
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Agenda
Ladies’ DayThe Basics
Misogynist Feminism?Social Critique in Ladies’ Day
DiscussionWhat’s Being “Performed”: Ideology of or
Subversion of Identity?
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Ladies Day
The Basics
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Aristophanes Ladies Day 6
Thesmophoriazusae: Play Facts
Title “Women Celebrating the
Thesmophoria” Produced
spring 411 BCE Premise
eur finds out plays anger women
women’s “assembly” to punish him
Parody / allusion Euripides’
PalamedesHelenTelephusAndromeda
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Aristophanes Ladies Day 8
Setting, Occasion
Occasion Thesmophoria (fall)
Goddesses Demeter Kore-Persephone
Celebrants Freeborn, respectable
women Venue
Thesmophorion
Activities Business Withy bedding
anti-aphrodisiac Three-day sequence
“Ascent”“Fasting” (+ ground-
sitting)“Celebrating” -
unearthing genitalia cakes piglet sacrifice snake models
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Misogynist Feminism?
Social Critique in Ladies’ Day
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Discussion: Gender Stereotypes
Female Male
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Feminist Aristophanes?
“If the men are to be believed, we are a plague to them; …. But if we are truly such a pest, why marry us? Why forbid us to go out or show ourselves at the window? …“Come, let us compare them in detail, each individual man with a woman. Charminus is not equal to Nausimakhē, that’s certain. Cleophon is in every respect inferior to Salabakkhō. It’s a long time now since any of you has dared to contest the prize with Aristomakhē, the heroine of Marathon, or with Stratonikē. Among the last year’s Councilors, who have just yielded their office to other citizens, is there one who equals Euboulē? Not even Anytus would say that. Therefore we maintain that men are greatly our inferiors.” (Thesmophoriazusae lines 788 ff. ≈ p. 299 ff Fitts)
names…
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Discussion
What’s Being “Performed”: Ideology of or Subversion of Identity?