NotAllDeadWhiteMen

A virulent strain of antifeminism is thriving online. This movement treats women’s empowerment as a mortal threat to men and to the integrity of Western civilization. Its adherents cite ancient Greek and Latin texts to support their claims. They argue that these texts articulate a model of masculinity that sustained generations, but is now under siege.

Donna Zuckerberg has delved deep into the virtual communities of the far right. She has found men lamenting their loss of power and privilege and strategizing about how to reclaim them. Mixed in with weightlifting tips and misogynistic vitriol, she has also found the words of the Stoics. These words are deployed to support the ideal vision of masculine life. On other sites, pickup artists quote Ovid’s Ars Amatoria to justify ignoring women’s boundaries. By appropriating the Classics, these men lend a veneer of intellectual authority and ancient wisdom to their project of patriarchal white supremacy.

Feminists have taken up the Classics online, to counter the sanctioning of violence against women. 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.

作者简介

DonnaZuckerbergisaSiliconValley–basedclassicistwhoreceivedherdoctoraltrainingatPrincetonUniversity.SheisthefounderandEditor-in-ChiefofEidolon,aprize-winningonlineClassicsmagazine(www.eidolon.pub).