Abstract

PEREZ, Ma. Dolores Mirón. Between house and agora: gender, space and power in the Greek polis. Aljaba [online]. 2014, vol.18, pp.11-34. ISSN 1669-5704.

The aim of this article is to analyse and reflect on the way how classical Greek society organised through spaces -material and symbolically-, gender differences and hierarchies, as an essential part of the system of the polis. Although genders in classical Greek society were well defined, gender spaces were permeable and flexible; thus we must separate ideal from social practice. In the real life women moved in public spaces; men lived and worked at home; but women and men were not in the same spaces in the same way. Two spaces are especially studied: the male andron in the fwomen and men in the society, and reveal spatially the gender relations as relations of power.

Keywords : Gender; Space; Power; Ancient Greece.