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Gender and the body in the ancient Mediterranean / edited by Maria Wyke.

Contributor(s): Wyke, MariaMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Gender & history (Unnumbered)Publication details: Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 1998. Description: ix, 219 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0631205241; 9780631205241Subject(s): Human body -- Social aspects -- Mediterranean Region | -- Cross-cultural studies | Body image | Gender identity -- Mediterranean Region | Sex role -- Mediterranean RegionGenre/Form: Cross-cultural studies.DDC classification: 306.4 LOC classification: HM110 | .G46 1998
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.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books The BIAA David H. French Library
Shelf 26 - Main Room 		A8 WYKE 29298 Not for loan BOOKS*000000022197

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.