Male and female citizens in the greek classical city. What gender do to the political body?

Gender as a category of analysis, combined with the results of the pionneering scholarship of the eighties about the mixed feature of many civic practices and of the male and female vocabulary of citizenship, invite us to give a picture of Ancient Greek citizenship quite different from the definition given in Aristotle’s Politika (1275b77-20). This paper distinguishes between what is linked to democratic as a political regime, and more broadly, to the point of view of political regimes’ observations (in Ancient Greece or elsewhere) and what is linked to concrete civical practices - political in Greek words - where the politai, even with different functions, are, male and female, all joined together.

Keywords:
Athens; citizenship; gender.