ISBN:
9781003818779
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (438 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.40901
Keywords:
Women-History-To 500
;
Sex role-History-To 1500
;
Sex-History-To 1500
Abstract:
Including both traditional and underrepresented accounts and geographies of soul, body, gender, and sexuality in late antique history, philosophy, and theology, this volume offers substantial re-readings of these and related concepts through theories of dis/embodiment.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I From India -- 1 Celibacy, Sexuality, and Monasticism in Early South Asia: A Personal Dialogue with the Past -- II Through the Late Antique Mediterranean -- II.1 Gender and the Self in Greek Philosophy -- 2 Light, Knowledge, Incorporeality, and the Feminine in Parmenides -- 3 Plotinus: Seeing the Self in Unity -- 4 Sexless Henology, or, Is Plotinus' One Neutral to Sex and Gender? -- 5 The Two Aphrodites: Plotinus, Proclus, and the Sublimation of Bodily Desires -- 6 In/violability as Evidence in Heliodorus -- II.2 Gender, The Body, and Christian Theology -- 7 Male and Female in the Protevangelium Jacobi -- 8 Identical, But Not Alike: The Resurrection of the Body According to Amphilochius of Iconium -- 9 Fatherhood and Sonship: The Use of Concepts of Reproduction and Gendered Perspectives in the Ninth-Century Arabic Christian Controversy -- II.3 Augustine on Soul, Body, and Sexuality -- 10 Man, Woman, and Serpent as the Inner State of One Person: Anthropology Based on the Interpretation of Genesis 3 in Didymus the Blind and Augustine of Hippo -- 11 From Matter to History: Towards a Disembodied Interpretation of Human Sexuality in Augustine -- 12 Augustine on the Uniqueness of Sexual Desire Among the Passions and on the Ambivalent Character of Sexual Life Within a Christian Marriage -- II.4 Bodily Transformations in Hagiography and Magic -- 13 Shame in the Development of Christian Identity in the Acts of the Christian Martyrs -- 14 Historicizing Trans Saints: Gender, Sexuality, and Agency in the Life of Pelagia -- 15 The Im/materiality of the Will?: The Life of Dositheus and Delicia Children in Late Antiquity -- 16 Menopause and Agency in Late Antiquity: A Case for Magical Gems.
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