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Title Gender and the body in the ancient Mediterranean / edited by Maria Wyke.
Publish Info Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 1998.

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LibraryLocationCall Number/Serial HoldingsStatus
Miami U King Library (2nd floor) HM110 .G46 1998 AVAILABLE
Oberlin College Main Library HM110 .G46 1998 AVAILABLE
Ohio State U Thompson Library Stacks 7th Floor HM110 .G46 1998 AVAILABLE
Ohio U Alden 6th Floor HM110 .G46 1998 DUE 03-11-17
Ohio Wesleyan University OWU Beeghly Stacks HM110 .G46 1998 NON-CIRC
U of Cincinnati CLASS Stacks HM110 .G46 1998 AVAILABLE
U of Dayton Roesch - 5th Floor HM110 .G46 1998 AVAILABLE
U of Toledo CARLSON General (4th fl) HM110 .G46 1998 AVAILABLE
U of Toledo CARLSON General (4th fl) HM110 .G46 1998 c.2 AVAILABLE
Wright State Dunbar 3rd Floor HM110 .G46 1998 DUE 05-31-24

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Contents

 Introduction / Maria Wyke1
 Articles 
  The Essential Body: Mesopotamian Conceptions of the Gendered Body / Julia M. Asher-Greve8
  Auguries of Hegemony: The Sex Omens of Mesopotamia / Ann Kessler Guinan38
  With This Body I Thee Worship: Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity / Mary Beard, John Henderson56
  Men Without Clothes: Heroic Nakedness and Greek Art / Robin Osborne80
  Women's Costume and Feminine Civic Morality in Augustan Rome / Judith Lynn Sebesta105
  The Ideology of the Eunuch Priest / Lynn E. Roller118
  Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised? / Shaye J. D. Cohen136
  Creation, Virginity and Diet in Fourth-Century Christianity: Basil of Ancyra's On the True Purity of Virginity / Teresa M. Shaw155
 Thematic Reviews 
  Engendering Egypt / Lynn Meskell173
  Re(ge)ndering Gender(ed) Studies / Alison Sharrock179
  Manhood in the Graeco-Roman World / Jonathan Walters191
  Getting/After Foucault: Two Postantique Responses to Postmodern Challenges / Paul Cartledge194
  Reading the Female Body / Helen King199
  Gendered Religions / Gillian Clark204
  Gender and Sexuality on the Internet / John G. Younger209
 Notes on Contributors 
 Index 
Description ix, 219 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series Gender & history
Gender & history (Unnumbered)
Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Essential body / Julia M. Asher-Greve -- Auguries of hegemony / Ann Kessler Guinan -- With this body I thee worship / Mary Beard and John Henderson -- Men without clothes / Robin Osborne -- Women's costume and feminine civic morality in Augustan Rome / Judith Lynn Sebesta -- Ideology of the eunuch priest / Lynn E. Roller -- Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? / Shaye J.D. Cohen -- Creation, virginity and diet in fourth-century Christianity / Teresa M. Shaw -- Thematic reviews.
Subjects Human body -- Social aspects -- Mediterranean Region.
Mind and body -- Cross-cultural studies.
Body image.
Gender identity -- Mediterranean Region.
Sex role -- Mediterranean Region.
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies. fast
Alt Name Wyke, Maria.
LC NO HM110 .G46 1998
Dewey No 306.4 21
OCLC # 39013822
ISBN 0631205241
9780631205241
Isn/Std # (OCoLC)39013822 (OCoLC)493193378
LCCN 98023478

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