Gail P. Streete

Violated and Transcended Bodies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This Element covers social construction of the ideas of body and gender in Late Antiquity and Early Christianity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 78
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 127mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 83g
• ISBN-13: 9781009054157
• ISBN-10: 1009054155
• Artikelnr.: 61329814

Autorenporträt

Gail P. Streete is Professor Emerita of Religious Studies at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee. Streete is the author of Her Image of Salvation (1992), The Strange Woman (1997), and Redeemed Bodies (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

1. About Bodies, Gender, and Identity
2. Equal Opportunity: Martyrs and Ascetics
3. Martyrdom as Asceticism: Thecla and the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles
4. Bodies that Save the World
Abbreviations
Bibliography.