Bitchy ladies: domestic violence against ornatrices in Latin poetry—protest femininity, toxic femininity?

IF 0.2 4区 历史学 0 CLASSICS BULLETIN OF THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2024-09-13 DOI:10.1093/bics/qbae020
Marguerite Johnson
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In a revisionist historical environment in which scholars are increasingly invited to reconsider readings of classical texts from a philological perspective, or from an approach that privileges strict historicity, numerous interpretative possibilities present themselves. Working within such an environment, this study aims to delve into several literary expressions of domestic violence meted out to female slaves—explicitly, ornatrices—by female mistresses—particularly, elegiac dominae and satirical matronae—by combining the traditional methodologies of classical studies with theories of both protest femininity and toxic femininity. In so doing, it considers words and their meanings—notably the language of legalese as well as violence—and gender theories of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century—to read domestic violence among women as a cultural dynamic underpinned by patriarchal institutions that not only institutionalize the abuse of slaves but both initiate and permit it at the hands of disempowered females.
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贱女人:拉丁诗歌中针对ornatrices的家庭暴力--抗议女性气质,有毒的女性气质?
在修正主义的历史环境中,越来越多的学者被邀请从语言学的角度,或者从一种强调严格历史性的方法来重新考虑对古典文本的解读,在这种环境下,众多的解释可能性呈现出来。在这样的环境下,本研究旨在通过将古典研究的传统方法与抗议女性特质和有毒女性特质的理论相结合,深入探讨女主人对女奴--明确地说是ornatrices--实施家庭暴力的几种文学表达方式,尤其是挽歌式的 dominae 和讽刺式的 matronae。在这样做的过程中,该书考虑了词语及其含义--尤其是法律语言和暴力语言--以及 20 世纪末和 21 世纪初的性别理论,将妇女中的家庭暴力解读为父权体制下的一种文化动态,这种体制不仅将虐待奴隶制度化,而且还发起并允许无权女性实施虐待。
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