{"product_id":"gender-and-the-body-in-the-ancient-mediterranean-isbn-9780631205241","title":"Gender and the Body in the Ancient Mediterranean","description":"\u003ci\u003e Gender and the Body in the Ancient Mediterranean \u003c\/i\u003e builds up an important source of interdisciplinary information for the study of gender and the body in history. .  \u003cb\u003eAbstracts\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction (Maria Wyke)\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArticles\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Essential Body: Mesopotamian Conceptions of the Gendered Body (Julia M. Asher-Greve).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuguries of Hegemony: The Sex Omens of Mesopotamia (Ann Kessler Guinan).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith This Body I Thee Worship: Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity (Mary Beard and John Henderson).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMen Without Clothes: Heroic Nakedness and Greek Art (Robin Osborne).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWomen’s Costume and Feminine Civic Morality in Augustan Rome (Judith Lynn Sebesta).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Ideology of the Eunuch Priest (Lynn E. Roller).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy Aren’t Jewish Women Circumcised? (Shaye J. D. Cohen).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCreation, Virginity and Diet in Fourth-Century Christianity: Basil of Ancyra’s On the True Purity of Virginity (Teresa M. Shaw)\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThematic Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEngendering Egypt (Lynn Meskell).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRe(ge)ndering Gender(ed) Studies (Alison Sharrock).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eManhood in the Graeco-Roman World (Jonathan Walters).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGetting\/After Foucault: Two Postantique Responses to Postmodern Challenges (Paul Cartledge).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReading the Female Body (Helen King).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGendered Religions (Gillian Clark).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGender and Sexuality on the Internet (John G. Younger)\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNotes on Contributors.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIndex\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This is an excellent addition to the study of gender in the ancient world.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Classical Review\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Wyke\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Latin at University College London. She is author of \u003cem\u003eProjecting the Past: Ancient\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eRome, Cinema and History\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Roman Mistress: Ancient and Modern Representations\u003c\/em\u003e, and is now working on her next publication \u003cem\u003eCaesar: A Life in Western Culture\u003c\/em\u003e.   \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGender and the Body in the Ancient Mediterranean\u003c\/b\u003e builds up an important and exciting source of inter-disciplinary information for the study of gender and the body in history. Ranging over the formation of the gendered body in the ancient Near East, Greece, Rome and Judaea, the volume examines ancient bodies as crucial sites for the display, containment or transgression of gender difference.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGender and the Body\u003c\/b\u003e demonstrates the central role of antiquity in the developing cultural formation of the gendered body as a concept and a practice in modern societies. Its findings will be extremely useful for the professional historian of gender, as well as an invaluable aid to students investigating women, sexuality, gender and the body (both ancient and modern).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989274444005,"sku":"NP9780631205241","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631205241.jpg?v=1761783476","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/gender-and-the-body-in-the-ancient-mediterranean-isbn-9780631205241","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}