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Media type:
Book
Title:
The gendered palimpsest
:
women, writing, and representation in early Christianity
Contains:
Introduction -- Women and books. Women writers, writing for women : authors, scribes, book-lenders, and patrons -- Reading, not eating : women readers in late ancient Christian asceticism -- Women's literature? : the case of the apocryphal acts of the apostles -- Sexual/textual politics. Sinners and saints, silent and submissive? : the textual/sexual transformation of female characters in the New Testament and beyond -- "First among all women" : the story of Thecla in textual transmission and iconographic remains -- Contesting the ascetic language of Eros : textual fluidity in the apocryphal acts of the apostles -- Conclusion.