| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 264 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Intersectionality in classical antiquity |
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Intersectionality in classical antiquity.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Queering classics -- I: Gender construction -- Gender diversity in Classical Greek thought -- Blending bodies in Classical Greek medicine -- Birth by hammer : Pandora and the construction of bodies -- Life after transition : spontaneous sex change and its aftermath in ancient literature -- II: Gender fluidity -- Neutrumque et utrumque videntur : reappraising the gender role(s) of Hermaphroditus in ancient art -- Intersex and intertext : Ovid's Hermaphroditus and the early universe -- Que(e)r(y)ing Iphis' transformation in Ovid's Metamorphoses -- Ruling in purple ... and wearing make-up : gendered adventures of Emperor Elagabalus as seen by Cassius Dio and Herodian -- III: Transgender identity -- Allegorical bodies : (trans)gendering Virtus in Statius' Thebaid 10 and Silius Italicus' Punica 15 -- Performing blurred gender lines : revisiting Omphale and Herculesin Pompeian Dionysian theatre gardens -- The politics of transgender representation in Apuleius' Golden ass and Loukios, or the ass -- Wit, conventional wisdom and wilful blindness : intersections between sex and gender in recent receptions of the fifth of Lucian's Dialogues of the Courtesans -- IV: Female masculinity -- Christianity re-sexualised : intertextuality and the early Christian novel -- Manly and monstrous women : (de- )constructing gender in Roman oratory -- The great escape : reading Artemisia in Herodotus' Histories and 300 : rise of an empire |
| Summary |
Gender 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed April 1, 2020) |
| Subject |
Gender identity -- History
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Gender identity
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Surtees, Jennifer, editor
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Dyer, Jennifer, editor
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| ISBN |
9781474447065 |
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1474447066 |
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9781474447072 |
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1474447074 |
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