Parchments of Gender builds up an important source of inter-disciplinary information for the study of gender and the body in ancient history. The central and unifying theme is the body's relation to gender. With essays covering the ancient communities of Greece, Rome, and Judaea, the volume argues that the body is culturally constructed and not a sign of what is natural. Ancient bodies are "parchments of gender": textual skins on which gender is inscribed and on which can be traced other interconnecting matrices of ...
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Parchments of Gender builds up an important source of inter-disciplinary information for the study of gender and the body in ancient history. The central and unifying theme is the body's relation to gender. With essays covering the ancient communities of Greece, Rome, and Judaea, the volume argues that the body is culturally constructed and not a sign of what is natural. Ancient bodies are "parchments of gender": textual skins on which gender is inscribed and on which can be traced other interconnecting matrices of knowledge and power that give these bodies their seemingly legible contours. The volume also demonstrates the central role of antiquity in the developing cultural formation of the gendered body as a concept, a practice and an experience in modern societies.
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0198150806. Very light pencil marginalia to a few pages. DJ spine a bit sunned.; 8.6 X 1 X 5.7 inches; 304 pages.
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First edition. x+291 pages with index. Illustrated. Cloth. Fine in fine dustjacket. Parchments of Gender builds up an important source of inter-disciplinary information for the study of gender and the body in history. Some of the most prominent scholars in the field take a look at the relation of the body to gender in Greece, Rome and the Near East.
