Parchments of Gender : Deciphering the Body in Antiquity
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0198150806
ISBN-13
9780198150800
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 26th, 1998
Print length
302 Pages
Weight
545 grams
Dimensions
22.40 x 14.30 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
General & world historyAncient history: to c 500 CEGender studies, gender groups
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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 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.
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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