Mothers in Mourning"Nicole Loraux brilliantly elucidates how Athenian politics were 'gendered' in the Classical period. She investigates the Athenian state's interdiction of ritualized mourning by women, in a city where public mourning constituted a vital act of civic self definition and solidarity. "As Loraux shows, the silencing and exclusion of femaleespecially maternalclaims to a crucial relationship with the city's fallen war heroes served, and was reinforced by,