Exploring Gender Diversity in the Ancient World

Herausgeber: Surtees, Allison; Dyer, Jennifer

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores how binary gender and behaviours of gender were actively challenged in classical antiquity 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. Allison Surtees is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Winnipeg. Jennifer Dyer is Associate Professor of Gender Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9781474447041
• ISBN-10: 147444704X
• Artikelnr.: 58292572

Autorenporträt

Allison Surtees is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Winnipeg. Jennifer Dyer is Associate Professor in Gender Studies at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. She is the author of Serial Images: The Modern Art of Iteration (Lit Verlag, 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Queering Classics - Allison Surtees and Jennifer Dyer
Gender Construction
1. Gender Diversity in Classical Greek Thought - Walter Penrose, Jr. (San
Diego State University)
2. Blending Bodies in Classical Greek Medicine - Tyson Sukava (University
of Delaware)
3. Birth by Hammer: Pandora and the construction of bodies - Anna Uhlig
(University of California, Davis)
4. Life After Transition: Spontaneous Sex Change and Its Aftermath in
Ancient Literature - K.E. Shannon-Henderson (University of Alabama,
Tuscaloosa)
Gender Fluidity
5. Neutrumque et Utrumque Videntur: Reappraising the gender-role(s) of
Hermaphroditus in ancient art - Linnea Åshede (University of Gothenburg)
6. Intersex and Intertext: Ovid's Hermaphroditus and the Early Universe -
Peter Kelly (University of Oregon)
7. Qu(e)r(y)ing Iphis' transformation in Ovid's Metamorphoses - Rebecca
Begum-Lees (University of Cambridge)
8. Ruling in the purpleY and wearing make-up: Gendered Adventures of
Emperor Elagabalus as seen by Cassius Dio and Herodian - Jussi Rantala
(University of Tampere)
Transgender Identity
9. Allegorical Bodies: (trans)gendering Virtus in Statius' Thebaid 10 and
Silius Italicus' Punica 15 - Dalida Agri (University of Manchester)
10. Performing Blurred Gender Lines: Revisiting Omphale and Hercules in
Pompeian Dionysian Theatre Gardens - Lisa Hughes (University of Calgary)
11. The Politics of Transgender Representation in Apuleius' Golden Ass and
Loukios, or the Ass - Evelyn Adkins (Case Western Reserve University)
12. Wit, Conventional Wisdom, and Willful Blindness: Intersections between
Sex, Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in the Fifth of Lucian's Dialogues of the
Courtesans - Rowan Emily Ash (University of Western Ontario)
Female Masculinity
13. Christianity Re-sexualised: Intertextuality and the Early Christian
Novel - Brian Sowers (Brooklyn College) and Kimberly Passaro (University of
Cincinnati)
14. Manly and Monstrous Women: (De-) Constructing Gender in Roman Oratory -
Mary Deminion (University of Western Ontario)
15. The great escape: Reading Artemisia in Herodotus' Histories and 300:
Rise of an Empire - Denise Eileen McCoskey (Miami University, Ohio)
Selected Bibliography
Index