Exploring Gender Diversity in the Ancient World

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Titel: Exploring Gender Diversity in the Ancient World

Enthält: Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Queering Classics
PART I. Gender Construction
CHAPTER 1. Gender Diversity in Classical Greek Thought
CHAPTER 2. Blending Bodies in Classical Greek Medicine
CHAPTER 3. Birth by Hammer: Pandora and the Construction of Bodies
CHAPTER 4. Life after Transition: Spontaneous Sex Change and Its Aftermath in Ancient Literature
PART II. Gender Fluidity
CHAPTER 5. Neutrumque et Utrumque Videntur: Reappraising the Gender Role(s) of Hermaphroditus in Ancient Art
CHAPTER 6. Intersex and Intertext: Ovid’s Hermaphroditus and the Early Universe
CHAPTER 7. Que(e)r(y)ing Iphis’ Transformation in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
CHAPTER 8. Ruling in Purple ... and Wearing Make-up: Gendered Adventures of Emperor Elagabalus as seen by Cassius Dio and Herodian
PART III. Transgender Identity
CHAPTER 9. Allegorical Bodies: (Trans)gendering Virtus in Statius’ Thebaid 10 and Silius Italicus’ Punica 15
CHAPTER 10. Performing Blurred Gender Lines: Revisiting Omphale and Hercules in Pompeian Dionysian Theatre Gardens
CHAPTER 11. The Politics of Transgender Representation in Apuleius’ The Golden Ass and Loukios, or the Ass
CHAPTER 12. Wit, Conventional Wisdom and Wilful Blindness: Intersections between Sex and Gender in Recent Receptions of the Fifth of Lucian’s Dialogues of the Courtesans
PART IV. Female Masculinity
CHAPTER 13. Christianity Re-sexualised: Intertextuality and the Early Christian Novel
CHAPTER 14. Manly and Monstrous Women: (De-)Constructing Gender in Roman Oratory
CHAPTER 15. The Great Escape: Reading Artemisia in Herodotus’ Histories and 300: Rise of an Empire
Selected Bibliography
Index

Beteiligte: Surtees, Allison [VerfasserIn]; Adkins, Evelyn [MitwirkendeR]; Agri, Dalida [MitwirkendeR]; Ash, Rowan Emily [MitwirkendeR]; Begum-Lees, Rebecca [MitwirkendeR]; Deminion, Mary [MitwirkendeR]; Dyer, Jennifer [VerfasserIn]; Dyer, Jennifer [MitwirkendeR]; Hughes, Lisa [MitwirkendeR]; Kelly, Peter [MitwirkendeR]; McCoskey, Denise Eileen [MitwirkendeR]; Passaro, Kimberly [MitwirkendeR]; Penrose, Walter D. [MitwirkendeR]; Rantala, Jussi [MitwirkendeR]; Shannon-Henderson, K. E. [MitwirkendeR]; Sowers, Brian P. [MitwirkendeR]; Sukava, Tyson [MitwirkendeR]; Surtees, Allison [MitwirkendeR]; Uhlig, Anna [MitwirkendeR]; Åshede, Linnea [MitwirkendeR]

Erschienen: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (280 p.); 25 B/W illustrations

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9781474447065

ISBN: 9781474447065

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Schlagwörter: Gender identity History ; Classics & Ancient History ; HISTORY / Ancient / General

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Anmerkungen: In English

Beschreibung: Explores how binary gender and behaviours of gender were actively challenged in classical antiquityProvides a focus on gender on its own terms and outside the context of sex and sexualityOffers an interdisciplinary approach, appealing to Classicists, Ancient Historians, and Archaeologists, as well as audiences working outside the ancient world, in Gender Studies, Transgender Studies, LGBTQ+ Studies, Anthropology, and Women’s StudiesCovers a broad time period (6th c. BCE – 3rd c. CE) and addresses both textual evidence and material culture (vases, sculpture, wall painting)Provides history of gender identities and behaviours previously ignored or suppressed by disciplinary practicesGender identity and expression in ancient cultures are questioned in these 15 essays in light of our new understandings of sex and gender. Using contemporary theory and methodologies this book opens up a new history of gender diversity from the ancient world to our own, encouraging us to reconsider those very understandings of sex and gender identity.New analyses of ancient Greek and Roman culture that reveal a history of gender diverse individuals that has not been recognised until recently.Taking an interdisciplinary approach these essays will appeal to classicists, ancient historians, archaeologists as well as those working in gender studies, transgender studies, LGBTQ+ studies, anthropology and women’s studies

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