1. Feminist/Gender theories and the study of Antiquity in Europe and America
From the 1970’s to today, Gender studies and reflections on feminist/gender theories have continuously developed in all academic fields of Antiquity (history, literature, medicine, philosophy, law, religion, law, history of art…).
One purpose of the following bibliographical section is, through listing a series of major works, to testify to how feminist theories have been applied to Antiquity and its reception first by pioneering scholars, and then by their followers, in the academic world.
As evidence of its continual expansion, the variety of fields, topics, approaches and questionings in which gender Studies are relevant should be emphasized, especially as key stakeholder in addressing the main concerns of the world today:
history of women, social history, cultural history (work on historical women, clothing and dress history, anthropology of the body, history of emotions and mental illness…), gender relations, sex and sexuality, queer theory, intersectionality (foregrounding gender, race, national identity), women’s writing, classical reception studies, trans and gender variant topics, Black studies, postcolonial literature and theory, posthumanism theory, ecofeminism.