{"product_id":"how-women-became-poets-a-gender-history-of-greek-literature-paperback","title":"How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEmily Hauser\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow the idea of the author was born in the battleground of gender\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one--\u003ci\u003eaoidos\u003c\/i\u003e, or \"singer-man.\" The most famous woman poet of ancient Greece, whose craft was one of words, had no words with which to talk about who she was and what she did. In \u003ci\u003eHow Women Became Poets\u003c\/i\u003e, Emily Hauser rewrites the story of Greek literature as one of gender, arguing that the ways the Greeks talked about their identity as poets constructed, played with, and broke down gender expectations that literature was for men alone. Bringing together recent studies in ancient authorship, gender, and performativity, Hauser offers a new history of classical literature that redefines the canon as a constant struggle to be heard through, and sometimes despite, gender. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWomen, as Virginia Woolf recognized, need rooms of their own in order to write. So, too, have women writers through history needed a name to describe what it is they do. Hauser traces the invention of that name in ancient Greece, exploring the archaeology of the gendering of the poet. She follows ancient Greek poets, philosophers, and historians as they developed and debated the vocabulary for authorship on the battleground of gender--building up and reinforcing the word for male poet, then in response creating a language with which to describe women who write. Crucially, Hauser reinserts women into the traditionally all-male canon of Greek literature, arguing for the centrality of their role in shaping ideas around authorship and literary production.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily Hauser\u003c\/b\u003e is a senior lecturer in classics and ancient history at the University of Exeter. She is the author of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eMythica: A New History of Homer's World, Through the Women Written Out of It \u003c\/i\u003eand a critically acclaimed trilogy of novels that reimagines the women of Greek myth: \u003ci\u003eFor the Most Beautiful\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFor the Winner\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFor the Immortal.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 376\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.84 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 04, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53336934121837,"sku":"9780691248769","price":42.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/0823\/9213\/files\/D6BR9Yc-6h9780691248769.webp?v=1778922736","url":"https:\/\/cleanfreaklab.myshopify.com\/products\/how-women-became-poets-a-gender-history-of-greek-literature-paperback","provider":"Clean Freak Lab","version":"1.0","type":"link"}