Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 143 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 545 g
Deciphering the Body in Antiquity
Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 143 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 545 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-815080-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press
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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- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
