Exploring Gender Diversity in the Ancient World / / Allison Surtees, Jennifer Dyer.
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 a...
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Intersectionality in Classical Antiquity : ICA
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 25 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- 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