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dc.contributor.authorCorbeill, Anthony P.
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-15T16:24:38Z
dc.date.available2015-01-15T16:24:38Z
dc.date.issued2008-01-01
dc.identifier.citationCorbeill, Anthony P. "Genus quid est? Roman Scholars on Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex*" Transactions of the American Philological Association. Vol 138, Iss 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/apa.0.0007.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/16256
dc.descriptionThis is the published version, also available here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/apa.0.0007.en_US
dc.description.abstractFrom at least as early as Varro, Roman scholars and grammarians occupy themselves with cataloguing peculiar instances of grammatical gender. The practice, with little extant precedent in Greek tradition, finds the grammarians consistently placing great importance upon the identification of grammatical gender with biological sex. I attempt to explain this fascination with "sex and gender" by assessing ancient explanations for the fluid gender of nouns, and by considering the commonest practitioners of grammatical gender-bending (in particular Vergil). By dividing the world into discrete sexual categories, Latin vocabulary works to encourage the pervasive heterosexualization of Roman culture.en_US
dc.publisherJohns Hopkins University Pressen_US
dc.titleGenus quid est? Roman Scholars on Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex*en_US
dc.typeArticle
kusw.kuauthorCorbeill, Anthony P.
kusw.kudepartmentClassicsen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1353/apa.0.0007
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, publisher version
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