Parchments of Gender: Deciphering the Body in Antiquity
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, 1999
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1999 OUP hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. 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. List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction -Maria Wyke 1. Ithyphallic Males Behaving Badly; or, Satyr Drama as Gendered Tragic Ending - Edith Hall 2. 'The Mother of the Argument': Eros and the Body in Sappho and Plato's Phaedrus - Helene P. Foley 3. Talking Recipes in the Gynaecological Texts of the Hippocratic Corpus - Ann Ellis Hanson 4. Controlling Daughters' Bodies in Sirach - Jon L. Berquist 5. Austerity, Excess, Success, and Failure in Hellenistic and Early Imperial Italy - Emma Dench 6. Poisonous Women and Unnatural History in Roman Cultur-Sarah Currie 7. Discovering the Body in Roman Oratory - Erik Gunderson 8. The Emperor's New Body: Ascension from Rome- Mary Beard and John Henderson 9. 'Ordering the House': On the Domestication of Jewish Bodies -Cynthia M. Baker 10. Playing Roman Soldiers: The Martyred Body, Derek Jarman's Sebastiane, and the Representation of Male Homosexuality - Maria Wyke 11. Sowing the Seeds of Violence: Rape, Women, and the Land - Carol Dougherty.…
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- Title
- Parchments of Gender: Deciphering the Body in Antiquity
- Author
- Maria Wyke, Edith Hall, Helene P. Foley, Ann Ellis Hanson, Jon L. Berquist, Emma Dench, Sarah Currie, Erik Gunderson, Mary Beard, John Henderson, and Carol Dougherty
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0198150806
- ISBN 13
- 9780198150800
- Seller catalogs
- Ancient World
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The quality of the essays is consistently high; the essays are meticulously researched and often provocative. The scope of the volume ought to attract readers from diverse disciplines. This collection makes a significant contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the body and gender in the Western tradition. (Religious Studies Review)
A rich and rewarding collection of articles on gender. There is plenty of theory for those who like their theory, but also plenty of interesting texts and images for those who like their facts... an interesting and useful collection. (The Classical Review)
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