{"product_id":"intimate-commerce-exchange-gender-and-subjectivity-in-greek-tragedy-paperback-softback-9780292791145","title":"Intimate Commerce; Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy (Paperback \/ softback) 9780292791145","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIntimate Commerce\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eExchange, Gender, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eVictoria Wohl (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780292791145\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 January 1998\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e332 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eExchanges of women between men occur regularly in Greek tragedy-and almost always with catastrophic results. Instead of cementing bonds between men, such exchanges rend them. They allow women, who should be silent objects, to become monstrous subjects, while men often end up as lifeless corpses. But why do the tragedies always represent the transferal of women as disastrous?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVictoria Wohl offers an illuminating analysis of the exchange of women in Sophocles' \u003ci\u003eTrachiniae,\u003c\/i\u003e Aeschylus' \u003ci\u003eAgamemnon,\u003c\/i\u003e and Euripides' \u003ci\u003eAlcestis.\u003c\/i\u003e She shows how the attempts of women in these plays to become active subjects rather than passive objects of exchange inevitably fail. While these failures seem to validate male hegemony, the women's actions, however futile, blur the distinction between male subject and female object, calling into question the very nature of the tragic self. What the tragedies thus present, Wohl asserts, is not only an affirmation of Athens' reigning ideologies (including its gender hierarchy) but also the possibility of resistance to them and the imagination of alternatives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction. Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Tragic Exchange\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReaffirmation, Resistance, Negotiation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Social Economy of Exchange\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Subject of Exchange\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart One. Sovereign Father and Female Subject in Sophocles\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e#x2019\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTrachiniae\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne. \"The Noblest Law\": The Paternal Symbolic and Its Reluctant Subject\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Final Exchange\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHeracles: Subject under Siege\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHyllus: The Reluctant Ephebe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo. The Foreclosed Female Subject\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIole, Deianira, and the Triangle of Exchange\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eAnti dōrōn dōta\u003c\/i\u003e: Deianira\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e#x2019\u003cbr\u003es Gift-Giving\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStatus and Gender\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Woman\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e#x2019\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003ekleos\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThree. Alterity and Intersubjectivity\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterpellation of the Other, Creation of the Self\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpatial Models of Self and Other: Pandora and \u003ci\u003ekalokagathia\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Virgin in the Garden\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart Two. The Violence of \u003ci\u003ekharis\u003c\/i\u003e In Aeschylus\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e#x2019\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003eAgamemnon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFour. The Commodity Fetish and the Agalmatization of the Virgin Daughter\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMarx and the Fetishized Economy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Occluded Exchange\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Agalmatization of the Virgin Daughter\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFive. \u003ci\u003eAgalma ploutou\u003c\/i\u003e: Accounting for Helen\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Disenchantment of the \u003ci\u003eagalma\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eKhrusamoibos sōmatōn\u003c\/i\u003e: The Commodification of the Male Subject\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSix. Fear and Pity: Clytemnestra and Cassandra\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eAndroboulon kear\u003c\/i\u003e: Clytemnestra\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e#x2019\u003cbr\u003es Transgressive Identity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Lament for the Father\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart Three. Mourning and Matricide in Euripides\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e#x2019\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlcestis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeven. The Shadow of the Object: Loss, Mourning, and Reparation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEight. Agonistic Identity and the Superlative Subject\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Matriarch of the \u003ci\u003eoikos\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAlcestis\u003c\/i\u003e\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e#x2019\u003cbr\u003es Domestic Politics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Superlative Subject and Her Husband\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Tragedy to the Symposium\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNine. The Mirror of \u003ci\u003exenia\u003c\/i\u003e and the Paternal Symbolic\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Impossible \u003ci\u003ekharis\u003c\/i\u003e to the \u003ci\u003eagalma\u003c\/i\u003e Economy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003ephysis\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003epraxis\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHeracles and the Mirror of \u003ci\u003exenia\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Final Exchange\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion. Too Intimate Commerce\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeneral Index\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex Locorum\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52743744225560,"sku":"9780292791145","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/intimate-commerce-exchange-gender-and-subjectivity-in-greek-tragedy-paperback-softback-9780292791145","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}