Un-Roman Sex (eBook, PDF)

Gender, Sexuality, and Lovemaking in the Roman Provinces and Frontiers
Redaktion: Ivleva, Tatiana; Collins, Rob

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Un-Roman Sex explores how gender and sex were perceived and represented outside the Mediterranean core of the Roman Empire. The volume critically explores the gender constructs and sexual behaviours in the provinces and frontiers in light of recent studies of Roman erotic experience and flux gender identities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351980449
• Artikelnr.: 59308591

Inhaltsangabe

1. Venus' mirror: reflections of gender and sexuality in the Roman Empire

Part I: Seeing (beyond) sex

2. On a knife-edge: an image of sex and spectacle from Roman north-west Europe





3. More than just love and sex: Venus figurines in Roman Britain

4. His and hers: magic, materiality, and sexual imagery

Part II: Representations and performance of the feminine (or is it?)

5. Barbie-bodies and coffee beans: female genital imagery in the Mediterranean and the north-west provinces of the Roman Empire

6. Female status and gender on Roman frontier in Britain: between representation and reality

7. Dressed for death? A study of female-associated burials from Roman-period Slovenia





Part III: The stuff of "man"

8. Coming out of the provincial closet: masculinity, sexuality, and same-sex sexual relations amongst Roman soldiers in the European north-west, first-third centuries A.D.

9. The phallus and the frontier: the form and function of phallic imagery along Hadrian's Wall

10. Egyptian faience flaccid phallus pendants in the Mediterranean, Near East, and Black Sea regions

11. Roman and un-Roman sex

Rezensionen

"With enthusiasm, vigor, and courage (for, as the editors say, provincial archaeology remains a conservative field), this volume's contributors fill in the holes in the Kinsey II survey with small finds. [...] The collection consists of nine chapters, along with an introduction by the co-editors and a conclusion by the art historian Sarah Levin-Richardson - an inspired choice, grounded in the work she has done to restore subjectivity to the writers of Pompeii's most explicit sexual graffiti." - Amy Richlin, sehepunkte

"[A] necessary addition to the growing scholarship on the study of Roman erotic art, filling in a massive lacuna by focusing on Roman provinces and frontiers in the early centuries of the Empire... Un-Roman Sex is a must-read for any scholar of the Roman period, as well as for anyone studying gender, sex, or the body in history. This important volume not only adds to our understanding of the larger Roman world, but also reminds us that Roman culture did not develop exclusively in Italy. There was constant exchange between the center and periphery of the Roman Empire, which resulted in a great amount of diversity in the material record throughout it." - Katherine A. P. Iselin, University of Missouri, USA, in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2021