Title: Not all dead white men : classics and misogyny in the digital age / Donna Zuckerberg.ĭescription: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018. The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: Jacket credit: Art and design by Oliver Munday “Traces the application-and misapplication-of classical authors and texts in online communities that see feminism as a threat.”ĬAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS LONDON, ENGLAND 2018Ĭopyright © 2018 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College Their adoration of men like Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Ovid…is founded in a limited and distorted interpretation of ancient philosophy…lending heft and authority to sexism and abuse.” “Zuckerberg presciently analyzes these communities’…embrace of stoicism as a self-help tool to gain confidence, jobs, and girlfriends. “Explores how ideas about Ancient Greece and Rome are used and misused by antifeminist thinkers today.” “A chilling account of trolling, misogyny, racism, and bad history proliferated online by the Alt-Right… Zuckerberg makes a persuasive case for why we need a new, more critical, and less comfortable relationship between the ancient and modern worlds in this important and very timely book.” Not All Dead White Men reveals that some of the most controversial and consequential debates about the legacy of the ancients are raging not in universities but online. Its proponents cite ancient Greek and Latin texts to support their claims-from Ovid’s Ars Amatoria to Seneca and Marcus Aurelius-arguing that they articulate a model of masculinity that sustained generations but is now under siege. A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekĪ virulent strain of antifeminism is thriving online that treats women’s empowerment as a mortal threat to men and to the integrity of Western civilization.
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