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Misogynist Feminism?

Misogynist Feminism?. Aristophanes’ Ladies’ Day. 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 ). - QUESTION -.

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Misogynist Feminism?

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  1. Misogynist Feminism? Aristophanes’ Ladies’ Day

  2. 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)

  3. - QUESTION - Does Ladies’ Day deconstruct or affirm “identities”/stereotypes?

  4. Agenda • Ladies’ Day • The Basics • Misogynist Feminism? • Social Critique in Ladies’ Day • Discussion • What’s Being “Performed”: Ideology of or Subversion of Identity? Aristophanes Ladies Day

  5. Ladies Day The Basics

  6. 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’ Palamedes Helen Telephus Andromeda Thesmophoriazusae: Play Facts Aristophanes Ladies Day

  7. 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 Setting, Occasion Aristophanes Ladies Day

  8. Misogynist Feminism? Social Critique in Ladies’ Day

  9. Discussion: Gender Stereotypes Female Male Aristophanes Ladies Day

  10. Feminist Aristophanes? names… “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 ffFitts)

  11. Discussion What’s Being “Performed”: Ideology of or Subversion of Identity?

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