前近代世界におけるジェンダー、宗教と文化 Religion, Gender, and Culture in the Pre-Modern World (Religion/culture/critique) （1ST）

Cuffel, Alexandra (EDT)/ Britt, Brian M. (EDT)

Palgrave Macmillan（2007/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 287 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781403972187
• DDC分類 306.7089

基本説明

This book compares shifting formulations of gender, interfaith, and ethnic relations in the Near East, Europe, the Americas, and Africa from antiquity to the Nineteenth century.

Full Description

This book compares shifting formulations of gender, interfaith, and ethnic relations across continents from antiquity to the Nineteenth century. Contributors address three areas: depictions of homosexual and transgendered behaviours, conceptualizations of femininity and masculinity, and the marriageability of ethnic and religious minorities.

Contents

Introduction; B.Britt & A.Cuffel PART ONE: ANCIENT CULTURES Ethnic Curses as Last Resort of the Weak in the Hebrew Bible; B.Britt Nymphs, Sexuality, and Young Girls in Ancient Greece; A.Knoblauch Hercules in a Skirt: The Paradox of Victory in the Early Roman Empire; C.Barton PART TWO: MEDIEVAL CULTURES Queer Mediterranean: Queer Sexualities in the Medieval Arab-Islamic World; S.Amer Eunuchs and Amazons: Exploring Gender Diversity in Byzantium; K.Ringrose "The Sweepings of Lamia": Transformations of the Myths of Lilith and Lamia in Christian Anti-Jewish Polemic; I.Resnick & K.F.Kitchell, Jr. Hunters and Boundaries; S.Belcher PART THREE: EARLY MODERN CULTURES The Vain, Exotic, and Erotic Feather: Dress, Gender, and Power in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England; C.Howey Soothing the Savage('s) B(r)east(s): Women's Clothing and Covering in the Discourse of Colonialism; A.Knobler Becoming Jews: Slavery, Conversion, and Upward Mobility in Colonial Suriname; A.Ben-Ur Revolution and the Family: Christian Marriage Law and European Expansion; J.Muldoon Conclusions; B.Britt & A.Cuffel