Category Archives: Hagstrum, Jean H.
Esteem Enlivened by Desire
Are there love and friendship after marriage? Or, in the words of Jean Hagstrum, Is there an ideal of marital friendship in Western culture? Those questions are central to several 1987 conferences at the National Humanities Center which Hagstrum helped … Continue reading
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Tagged Gender, Literature, Marriage, Word derivations
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Love Among the Ruins, Part 2 of 2
Was there an ideology of sex in classical Athens? In what ways would it differ from our own? With respect to marriage, the status of women, childrearing, and family, how did the Greeks differentiate between nature and culture? Finally, how … Continue reading
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Tagged Gender, Sex (Psychology), Sex customs --Greece --History, Sex role --Greece --History.
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