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Allison Surtees, Jennifer Dyer - Exploring Gender Diversity in the Ancient World, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Exploring Gender Diversity in the Ancient World

Av Allison Surtees, Jennifer Dyer

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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.
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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).

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This collection of essays on gender and sexual diversity in antiquity showcases a broad range of topics, approaches and time periods. The essays use philosophy, post-humanist theory, film reception, medicine, cross-cultural comparisons, intersectional theory, and rhetoric to tease out new and interesting ideas about sex and gender. Of great interest to anyone teaching a course on this topic.

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