Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, gave a plenary address titled "Tragedy's Women as Subjects and Objects of the Gaze," at the biennial Celtic Classics Conference held in Cork, Ireland, July 9-12. Rabinowitz was also a co-organizer of the "Vision and Power" workshop at the conference.
In her paper, Rabinowitz took up the arguments about women as object of the gaze first articulated by Laura Mulvey in "Visual and Other Pleasures." While contributing to the ongoing critique of these arguments where women are also importantly represented as the subjects of the gaze, Rabinowitz simultaneously demonstrated their continuing usefulness for the analysis of Greek tragedy.
In her paper, Rabinowitz took up the arguments about women as object of the gaze first articulated by Laura Mulvey in "Visual and Other Pleasures." While contributing to the ongoing critique of these arguments where women are also importantly represented as the subjects of the gaze, Rabinowitz simultaneously demonstrated their continuing usefulness for the analysis of Greek tragedy.
