The Political Status of Women in Chinese and Greek Classics

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

The papers in this panel are all concerned with the depiction of women in philosophical and literary Classics including the Chinese Classic of Poetry, Euripides’ Hecuba, Plato’s Republic, and Shakespeare’s Tempest. They reveal tensions in the depiction of women as, on the one hand, emotional beings and as defined by their role as mothers, and, on the other hand, political agents, even rulers.

Sub Unit

• Division 1: Political Thought and Philosophy: Historical Approaches

Individual Presentations

• Rereading Women in the Classic of Poetry in Light of the Other Chinese Classics - Loubna El Amine, Northwestern University

• Grief, Rage, and Solidarity: Finding the Concept of Menis in Euripides’ Hecuba - Danielle Hanley, Clark University

• Philosopher Queens and a Female Prospero(a) - Arlene W. Saxonhouse, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Chair

• John T. Lombardini College of William & Mary

Discussant

• Demetra Fannie Kasimis University of Chicago