Religion, gender, and culture in the pre-modern world /

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. Contributors address three areas in pre-modern gender, religious, and cultural encounters: depictions of homosexual and tr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cuffel, Alexandra, Britt, Brian M., 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Religion/culture/critique.
Temas:
Geschichte.
Gender identity > History.
Sex differences > History.
Anthropology of religion.
Ethnic relations > History.
Gender identity.
Culture.
Ethnic groups.
Medicine, Medieval.
Sex factors in disease.
Gender Identity
Culture
Ethnicity
History, Ancient
History, Medieval
Religion > history
Sex Factors
Identité de genre > Histoire.
Différences entre sexes > Histoire.
Anthropologie religieuse.
Relations interethniques > Histoire.
Identité de genre.
Groupes ethniques.
Médecine médiévale.
Maladies > Facteurs sexuels.
anthropology of religion.
sex role.
culture note.
ethnic groups.
culture (concept)
Gender studies, gender groups.
General & world history.
PSYCHOLOGY > Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP > Sexual Instruction.
Society.
Sex factors in disease
Medicine, Medieval
Ethnic groups
Anthropology of religion
Ethnic relations
Gender identity
Sex differences
Geschlechtsidentität
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ethnic curses as "last resort of the weak" in Genesis 9:18-28 and Joshua 9:22-27 / Brian Britt
  • Promiscuous or proper? Nymphs as female role models in Ancient Greece / Ann-Marie Knoblauch
  • Hercules in a skirt, or the feminization of victory during the Roman civil wars and early empire / Carlin Barton
  • "The sweepings of Lamia" : transformations of the myths of Lilith and Lamia / Irven M. Resnick and Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr.
  • Cross-dressing and female same-sex marriage in medieval French and Arabic literatures / Sahar Amer
  • Reorienting Christian "Amazons" : women warriors in medieval Islamic literature in the context of the Crusades / Alexandra Cuffel
  • Hunters and boundaries in Mande cultures / Stephen Belcher
  • Peripheral inclusion : communal belonging in Suriname's Sephardic community / Aviva Ben-Ur
  • The vain, exotic, and erotic feather : dress, gender, and power in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England / Catherine Howey
  • S(m)oothing the savage('s) b(r)east : covering and colonialism in the age of Euro-American expansion / Adam Knobler
  • European family law and the people of the frontier / James Muldoon.

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