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The Gender of Sound - Anne Carson

The Gender of Sound - Anne Carson

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"I would not have coped in Ancient Greece for many reasons and I now know that some of them would be related to how much I yap but that also women in Ancient Greece were major yappers which the men hated so maybe I would have been fine x. This was a very powerful essay! “It is a fundamental assumption of these gender stereotypes that a man in his proper condition of sophrosyne should be able to dissociate himself from his own emotions and so control their sound. It is a corollary assumption that man’s proper civic responsibility towards woman is to control her sound for her insofar as she cannot control herself…Female sophrosyne is coextensive with female obedience to male direction and rarely means more than chastity”" - Goodreads Reviewer

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Human history is filled with unacceptable sounds: high-pitched voices, gossip, talkativeness, hysteria, wailing and ritual shouts. Who makes them? Those deviant from or deficient in the masculine ideal of self-control: women, catamites, eunuchs and androgynes all fall into this category.

From the myths of antiquity to Margaret Thatcher via Sigmund Freud and Gertrude Stein, The Gender of Sound charts the gendering of sound in Western culture. Carson invites us to listen again, and in doing so to reimagine our conceptions of human order, virtue and selfhood.

Putting a door on the female mouth has been an important project of patriarchal culture from antiquity to the present day. Its chief tactic is an ideological association of female sound with monstrosity, disorder and death.