Religion, gender, and culture in the pre-modern world / edited by Alexandra Cuffel and Brian Britt
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- 出版： New York : Palgrave Macmillan 2007
- 叢書名： Religion/culture/critique
- 主題： Gender Identity. , Culture. , Ethnic groups , History, Ancient. , History, Medieval , Religion--History , Sex Factors. , Gender identity--History. , Sex differences--History , Anthropology of religion , Ethnic relations--History
- 版本：1st ed.
- ISBN： 9780230604292 、 0230604293
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- 書目註：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 areasin pre-modern gender, religious, and cultural encounters: depictions of homosexual and transgendered behaviors, conceptualizations of femininity and masculinity, and the marriageability of ethnic and religious minorities Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 系統號： 005170442 | 機讀編目格式
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This book compares shifting formulations of gender, interfaith, and ethnic relations across continents from antiquity to the Nineteenth century. Contributors address three areas: depictions of homosexual and transgendered behaviours, conceptualizations of femininity and masculinity, and the marriageability of ethnic and religious minorities.
內容註
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 boundariesin 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 insixteenth- 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 lawand the people of the frontier / James Muldoon