I ordered her book for $10. If you buy it new from U of Cali Press then it's $45 Now let's discuss it on youtube!
Pictorial Propaganda in 5th Century BC - phallic imperialism. "Complementing the text are 345 reproductions of Athenian vase paintings." Phallic towers used to be outside the houses in ancient Greece - herms
Keuls identifies a 'phallocracy' as central to the social dynamics of ancient Athens. · The mutilation of herms symbolizes women's resistance against the phallic ...Dealing with the end of the Periclean age, specifically in and around 415 BCE, Keuls charts the 'phallocracy' underlying Athenian society. This phallocracy was responsible, in the author's mind, for the subjugation of women, institutionalized homosexuality (but only as a right of passage for young men, not as an adult lifestyle), the "detailed reinterpretation of Greek tragedy in this light" (13), the relationship between the private life of male Athenians and public affairs, and Keuls' idea of who mutilated the Hermes (phallic posts omnipresent in Athens) in 415 BCE. To support her points, Keuls uses vase painting (a lot of them) to literally illustrate the seemingly endless references to the phallus, rape, and sometimes graphic forms of sexuality in general, not to mention depicting the ideal image of 'good' women, constantly spinning thread or engaged in other respectable occupations.
https://www.ucpress.edu/flyer/books/the-reign-of-the-phallus/paper
This is the first book to draw together all the elements that made up the "reign of the phallus"—men's blatant claim to general dominance, the myths of rape and conquest of women, and the reduction of sex to a game of dominance and submission, both of women by men and of men by men.
In her elegant and lucid text Eva Keuls not only examines the ideology and practices that underlay the reign of the phallus, but also uncovers an intense counter-movement—the earliest expressions of feminism and antimilitarism.
Complementing the text are 345 reproductions of Athenian vase paintings.
Apr 1993
Eva C. Keuls is Classics Professor at the University of Minnesota, the author of many scholarly articles, and a recognized authority on both Greek literature and vase painting. She is a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
https://archive.org/details/reignofphallusse00keul/page/n4/mode/1up
The Reign of the Phallus
a 1986 book by Eva Keuls - based on her academic article being published with the same name.
Attic mythology "Male wombs" - is this also the basis of alchemy from Pythagorean philosophy?
Eva C. Keuls is Classics Professor at the University of Minnesota, the author of many scholarly articles, and a recognized authority on both Greek literature and vase painting. She is a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Wow - I had no idea she taught at U of Minnesota! cool. She's even included in the new "Scholars Walk" at the University - since she won a Guggenheim Fellowship award.
https://scholarswalk.umn.edu/monument-maps/section-a
Wild - I wonder if the general public can do that "scholars walk" - since it is a "public" university? But the University has been privatized now...
Wow when I was attending the University of Minnesota there was a lawsuit with Eva Keuls!
https://mndaily.com/uncategorized/suit-set/01/21/1999/snoadmin/
After a class action suit filed by several female faculty members alleged pervasive sexism on campus, the University settled the case in one fell swoop — to the tune of $3 million — which was distributed to all University female faculty.
Eva C. Keuls, professor emeritus of Greek and Latin, said Rajender didn’t have a strong case.
“If it had stayed in the courts, the University probably would have won,” Keuls said. But Rajender’s attorney stuck with statistical data that showed women were clustered at the lower ranks, she said.
It was “immediately recognizable” that women were being discriminated against, she said.
Keuls, who retired in 1997, brought one of the first complaints under the decree. She was an associate professor and struggled to get a full professorship. When she did, she said, she wasn’t paid as much as male professors.
https://conservancy.umn.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/b630c913-8c62-4485-93ca-a6460dc32369/content
Dr. Eva Keuls and Dr. Andrew MacLeish represented the faculty members caught in the middle
of the controversy. Professor Keuls described her understanding of the developments within this case. In
November 1991, a published document from the University Administration stated that mandatory
retirement would be abolished following June 30, 1993. The Employee Benefits Department notified
faculty reaching the age of 70 in the second half of 1993 that they would not fall under mandatory
retirement. On March 18, 1993, a vice president mentioned at a Faculty Consultative Committee meeting
that those reaching the age of 70 between June 30, and December 31, 1993, would fall under mandatory
retirement and that they had been informed. The affected faculty however, did not receive notification of
the above mentioned change until April 28, 1993. Reactions to this change were not possible until the
Fall 1993 quarter because the academic year was almost over. According to Dr. Keuls, the University has
breached a legal precept termed "detrimental reliance." Five faculty have actively worked against the
implementation of this policy and the removal of their tenure as of December 31, 1993. Professor Keuls
senses that an agreement will be reached between the University and the involved faculty members. Ten
others involved had various reasons for not taking legal action.
One committee member asked if the ten faculty who did not file a complaint will be effected by
the negotiations with the others. Professor Keuls said that she did not know. There appears to be two
main issues said one person: 1) dealing with the specifics of those faculty interested in remaining active,
2) the style in which the administration has handled this matter.Eva passed away on month day 2014, at age 90 in death place
Introduction
1. Military Expeditions, Protest, Lament, and Scandal
2. Attic Mythology: Barren Goddesses, Male Wombs,
and the Cult of Rape
3. The Phallus and the Box: The World Seen in the
Shapes of Human Genitals
4. Bearing Children, Watching the House
5. Brides of Death, in More Ways Than One
6. The Athenian Prostitute: A Good Buy in the Agora
7. The Whore with the Golden Heart, the Happy
Hooker, and other Fictions
8. Two Kinds of Women: The Splitting of the
Female Psyche
9. The Sex Appeal of Female Toil
10. Easier to Live with Than a Wife: The Concubine
11. The Boy Beautiful: Replacing a Woman or
Replacing a Son?
12. Learning to Be a Man, Learning to Be a Woman
13. Sex Among the Barbarians
14. Classical Tragedy: Weaving Men's Dream
of Sexual Strife
15. Sex Antagonism and Women's Rituals
16. Love, Not War: Protest in the Arts and on the Streets
Epilogue
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