Format:
1 online resource (447 pages)
ISBN:
9780226075938
Series Statement:
The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society
Content:
Love Between Women examines female homoeroticism and the role of women in the ancient Roman world. Employing an unparalleled range of cultural sources, Brooten finds evidence of marriages between women and establishes that condemnations of female homoerotic practices were based on widespread awareness of love between women. "An extraordinary accomplishment. . . . A definitive source for all future discussion of homoeroticism and the Bible."-Mary Rose D'Angelo, Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review "[Brooten's] convincing analysis . . . not only profoundly reshapes our understanding of the past, but it should also shape the way in which that past, particularly the early Christian texts with their immense normative weight, will be used for the future."-Anne L. Clark, Journal of Lesbian Studies "Love Between Women gives contemporary debates on sexuality a carefully delineated past. It boldly insists upon a different future, one informed by history but not tyrannized by it."-Susan Ackerman, Lambda Book Report "Fascinating, provocative and lucid. . . . Brooten has made a fundamental contribution to women's and gender studies, gay and lesbian studies, and classics."-Elizabeth A. Castelli, Women's Review of Books Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Studies Book, 1997.
Content:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Technical Terms, Short Titles, and Keys to Symbols -- 1 Introduction -- Terminology -- Context within Current Scholarship on Same-Sex Love in Antiquity -- This Study within the Context of Ancient Mediterranean Women's History -- This Study within the Context of Lesbian History -- Part One: Female Homoeroticism in the Roman World: The Cultural Context of Early Christianity -- 2 Introduction: Of Sappho, Woman-Woman Marriage, and the Ways of the Egyptians -- Sappho of Lesbos -- Classical and Hellenistic Greek Literature -- Classical Latin Literature -- Greek Authors of the Roman Period -- Artistic Representations -- Postbiblical Judaism -- 3 "Inflame Her Liver with Love": Greek Erotic Spells from Egypt -- The Female Homoerotic Binding Spells:Texts and Commentary -- Interpreting Cultural Ideology -- Reconstructing Women's History -- The Erotic Spells, Magic, and Religion -- The Spells and Early Christianity -- 4 Predetermined Erotic Orientations: Astrological Texts -- Dorotheos of Sidon -- Manetho -- Ptolemy -- Vettius Valens -- Hermes Trismegistos -- Firmicus Maternus -- Hephaistion of Thebes -- 5 Women with Masculine Desires: Medical Treatments -- Tribades as Mentally III -- Clitoridectomy for Women with Masculine Desires -- The Medical Heritage of Female Homoeroticism -- 6 Unnatural Love: Classifying Dreams -- Part Two: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism -- 7 Introduction: Of British Schoolteachers and Romans -- 8 Paul's Letter to the Romans: Interpretive Frameworks and Female Homoeroticism -- Literary Approaches to Romans -- Interpretive Frameworks for Romans 1:18-32 -- 9 Romans 1: 18-32: A Commentary -- Commentary on Romans 1:16-32 -- Excursus: The Debate on Natural Theology -- Excursus: An Anthropological Understanding of Impurity.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226075914
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780226075914
Additional Edition:
Print version Love Between Women : Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism
Language:
English
Keywords:
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