Les études genres, la société antique et le droit : Un nouveau regard
Gender Studies, Ancient Society and Law: A New Look

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims at addressing the manner in which gender studies have penetrated the ancient sciences. And in particular the so-called “global“ history of the ancient Roman society in that they have allowed a deep renewal of problematic approaches and working methods for researchers. Above all, I would like to recall how much Gender Studies, quite quickly perceived, particularly in the Anglo-Saxon literature, as a relevant object of study in many human sciences, have struggled to be accepted within the disciplines of antiquity. That is because they are marked by an exacerbated classicism and, it must be said, a certain ideological conservatism since their emergence and their growth from the eighteenth century. Faced with the history of events involving great men, the history of bodies, sex or gender, or even semiotics have long been considered sub-disciplines of very minor issues in a history preconstructed at the event plan and institutionalized around modern mental images. We have now arrived at the end of what the classic historical approach can produce from a methodological point of view, and the gendre studies have given a new impetus for a few years now to shape a new perspective on ancient society. This point of view is illustrated in the paper by two observations.

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