Mireille M Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3622994 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mireille M Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mireille M |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE M M |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4436-0326 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Antiquity and Modernity in Neoclassical Dress: The Confluence of Ancient Greece and Colonial India
Fashionable in Britain in the early nineteenth century, Neoclassical dress embodied the aesthetic ideals of the Enlightenment; but it also reflected implicit cultural constructs of the body, gender, status, and race. Borrowings from ancient Greek styles differed for women and for men, and for elites versus the lower classes. The production of Neoclassical garments was dependent upon the economic exploitation of the Indian subcontinent. Neoclassic…
The Gendered Economics of Greek Bronze Mirrors: Reflections on Reciprocity and Feminine Agency
The Gendered Economics of Greek Bronze Mirrors: Reflections on Reciprocity and Feminine Agency Mireille M Lee The hand-held mirror is unique in Greek material culture in terms of both gender and economics.1 Bronze mirrors were produced by male metal-smiths in specialized workshops outside the household; the valuable bronze was otherwise associated with the masculine activities of war (in the form of weapons and armor), and government, as minted c…
Other “Ways of Seeing”: Female Viewers of the Knidian Aphrodite
Other “Ways of Seeing”:Female Viewers of the Knidian Aphrodite Mireille M. Lee (bio) In his 1972 book Ways of Seeing, art historian John Berger claimed: “Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at” (47). Such was certainly the case for Praxiteles’ statue of Aphrodite at Knidos, arguably the most famous sculpture in antiquity. Although most commentators, ancient and modern, have assumed a male spectator, women were also viewers of t…
Body-Modification in Classical Greece
Bodies and Boundaries in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
In the Graeco-Roman world, the cosmic order was enacted, in part, through bodies. The evaluative divisions between, for example, women and men, humans and animals, “barbarians” and “civilized” people, slaves and free citizens, or mortals and immortals, could all be played out across the terrain of somatic difference, embedded as it was within wider social and cultural matrices. This volume explores these thematics of bodies and boundaries: to exa…
Achelo s Peplophoros: A Lost Statuette of a River God in Feminine Dress
In this study the author analyzes the iconography of a unique Early Classical bronze statuette that represents the river god Acheloös as a peplophoros. Formerly in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, the statuette is now lost. Using the myth of Herakles' peplos as a parallel, the author argues that Acheloös is represented wearing women's dress in order to counterbalance his excessive masculinity. The combination of masculine and feminin…
Worshipping Aphrodite: Art and Cult in Classical Athens . By Rachel Rosenzweig
Aphrodite's Tortoise: The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece . By Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Manifesting Power: Gender and the Interpretation of Power in Archaeology . By Tracy L. Sweely
Bodies and Boundaries in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
In the Graeco-Roman world, the cosmic order was enacted, in part, through bodies. The evaluative divisions between, for example, women and men, humans and animals, “barbarians” and “civilized” people, slaves and free citizens, or mortals and immortals, could all be played out across the terrain of somatic difference, embedded as it was within wider social and cultural matrices. This volume explores these thematics of bodies and boundaries: to exa…
The Gendered Economics of Greek Bronze Mirrors: Reflections on Reciprocity and Feminine Agency
The Gendered Economics of Greek Bronze Mirrors: Reflections on Reciprocity and Feminine Agency Mireille M Lee The hand-held mirror is unique in Greek material culture in terms of both gender and economics.1 Bronze mirrors were produced by male metal-smiths in specialized workshops outside the household; the valuable bronze was otherwise associated with the masculine activities of war (in the form of weapons and armor), and government, as minted c…
Achelo s Peplophoros: A Lost Statuette of a River God in Feminine Dress
In this study the author analyzes the iconography of a unique Early Classical bronze statuette that represents the river god Acheloös as a peplophoros. Formerly in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, the statuette is now lost. Using the myth of Herakles' peplos as a parallel, the author argues that Acheloös is represented wearing women's dress in order to counterbalance his excessive masculinity. The combination of masculine and feminin…
Manifesting Power: Gender and the Interpretation of Power in Archaeology . By Tracy L. Sweely
Worshipping Aphrodite: Art and Cult in Classical Athens . By Rachel Rosenzweig
Aphrodite's Tortoise: The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece . By Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Achelo s Peplophoros: A Lost Statuette of a River God in Feminine Dress
In this study the author analyzes the iconography of a unique Early Classical bronze statuette that represents the river god Acheloös as a peplophoros. Formerly in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, the statuette is now lost. Using the myth of Herakles' peplos as a parallel, the author argues that Acheloös is represented wearing women's dress in order to counterbalance his excessive masculinity. The combination of masculine and feminin…
Body-Modification in Classical Greece
Bodies and Boundaries in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
In the Graeco-Roman world, the cosmic order was enacted, in part, through bodies. The evaluative divisions between, for example, women and men, humans and animals, “barbarians” and “civilized” people, slaves and free citizens, or mortals and immortals, could all be played out across the terrain of somatic difference, embedded as it was within wider social and cultural matrices. This volume explores these thematics of bodies and boundaries: to exa…
Other “Ways of Seeing”: Female Viewers of the Knidian Aphrodite
Other “Ways of Seeing”:Female Viewers of the Knidian Aphrodite Mireille M. Lee (bio) In his 1972 book Ways of Seeing, art historian John Berger claimed: “Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at” (47). Such was certainly the case for Praxiteles’ statue of Aphrodite at Knidos, arguably the most famous sculpture in antiquity. Although most commentators, ancient and modern, have assumed a male spectator, women were also viewers of t…
The Gendered Economics of Greek Bronze Mirrors: Reflections on Reciprocity and Feminine Agency
The Gendered Economics of Greek Bronze Mirrors: Reflections on Reciprocity and Feminine Agency Mireille M Lee The hand-held mirror is unique in Greek material culture in terms of both gender and economics.1 Bronze mirrors were produced by male metal-smiths in specialized workshops outside the household; the valuable bronze was otherwise associated with the masculine activities of war (in the form of weapons and armor), and government, as minted c…
Antiquity and Modernity in Neoclassical Dress: The Confluence of Ancient Greece and Colonial India
Fashionable in Britain in the early nineteenth century, Neoclassical dress embodied the aesthetic ideals of the Enlightenment; but it also reflected implicit cultural constructs of the body, gender, status, and race. Borrowings from ancient Greek styles differed for women and for men, and for elites versus the lower classes. The production of Neoclassical garments was dependent upon the economic exploitation of the Indian subcontinent. Neoclassic…
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