Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1555842 in Books
• Published on: 1996-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

Customer Reviews

DONT BELIEVE IT
A brilliant reviewer of appliances would have us believe that Cornell University Press would publish a book of negligible substance and detail. Knows little about the vetting process, which involves careful reviews by prominent academics and experts as well as staff editors. In fact the book is rich in historical, theoretical, and original anecdotal evidence as any reader who takes the time to actually read the book will see. Anyone can file an amazon report but clearly this is no guarantee of insight.

Bouncing Across the Pond
Hart's book was exceptionaly weak in content, spending the majority of the time on justification of methodology. Whenever one thought that an opportunity presented itself to deal with GREECE and GENDER, immediately the reader was bounced across the Atlantic to issues of African American radicalism or culture in the United States. This could have been a great book, if it were 120 pages that actaully dealt with Greece and utilized primary sources as opposed to secondary theoretical sources. Conjecture is not history.

A real contribution from an extraordinary scholar
I have heard about Dr. Hart's work for years and find her reputation as a ground-breaking scholar with novel, but significant, ideas for research is well-deserved. This work is especially important as so many of that generation are now passing away.