THREE. Unspeakable Professions: Public Performance and Prostitution in Ancient Rome

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. INTRODUCTION. Quod multofit aliter in Graecia . . . 1
5. PART ONE: UNMARKED SEXUALITY
6. ONE. Invading the Roman Body: Manliness and Impenetrability in Roman Thought 29
7. PART TWO: WAYWARD SEXUALITIES
8. TWO. The Teratogenic Grid 47
9. THREE. Unspeakable Professions: Public Performance and Prostitution in Ancient Rome 66
10. PART THREE: GENDER SLIPPAGE IN LITERARY CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE MASCULINE
11. FOUR. Dining Deviants in Roman Political Invective 99
12. FIVE. Ego mulier. The Construction of Male Sexuality in Catullus 129
13. SIX. The Erotics of amicitia: Readings in Tibullus, Propertius, and Horace 151
14. SEVEN. Reading Broken Skin: Violence in Roman Elegy 172
15. PART FOUR: MALE CONSTRUCTIONS OF "WOMAN"
16. EIGHT. Pliny's Brassiere 197
17. NINE. Female Desire and the Discourse of Empire: Tacitus's Messalina 221
18. TEN. Female Homoeroticism and the Denial of Roman Reality in Latin Literature 255
19. ELEVEN. The Lover's Voice in Heroides 15: Or, Why Is Sappho a Man? 274
20. PART FIVE: FEMALE CONSTRUCTION OF THE DESIRING SUBJECT
21. TWELVE. Tandem venit amor: A Roman Woman Speaks of Love 295
22. BIBLIOGRAPHY 311
23. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 333
24. INDEX 335