Sexual Labor in the Athenian Courts

Allison Glazebrook (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2021
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-2440-0 (ISBN)

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Oratory is a valuable source for reconstructing the practices, legalities, and attitudes surrounding sexual labor in classical Athens. It provides evidence of male and female sex laborers, sex slaves, brothels, sex traffickers, the cost of sex, contracts for sexual labor, and manumission practices for sex slaves. Yet the witty, wealthy, and independent hetaira, well-known from other genres, does not feature. Its detailed narratives and character portrayals provide a unique discourse on sexual labor and reveal the complex relationship between such labor and Athenian society.

Through a holistic examination of five key speeches, Sexual Labor in the Athenian Courts considers how portrayals of sex laborers intersected with gender, the body, sexuality, the family, urban spaces, and the polis in the context of the Athenian courts. Drawing on gender theory and exploring questions of space, place, and mobility, Allison Glazebrook shows how sex laborers represented a diverse set of anxieties concerning social legitimacy and how the public discourse about them is in fact a discourse on Athenian society, values, and institutions.

Allison Glazebrook is a professor of Classics at Brock University. She is a coeditor of Houses of Ill Repute: The Archaeology of Brothels, Houses, and Taverns in the Greek World and of Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean 800 BCE to 200 CE.

List of Figures

A Note to the Reader

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Under the Influence

2. In the Oikos

3. Part of the Family

4. Same-Sex Desire

5. Citizen Sex Slaves

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.12.2021
Zusatzinfo	4 maps
Verlagsort	Austin, TX
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	513 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4773-2440-2 / 1477324402
ISBN-13	978-1-4773-2440-0 / 9781477324400
Zustand	Neuware