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Religion, gender, and culture in the pre-modern world

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Religion, gender, and culture in the pre-modern worldedited by Alexandra Cuffel and Brian Britt.
other author:	Cuffel, Alexandra.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2007.
Description:	vi, 287 p. :ill.
Subject:	Gender Identity.
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230604292

Religion, gender, and culture in the pre-modern world
Religion, gender, and culture in the pre-modern world[electronic resource] /edited by Alexandra Cuffel and Brian Britt. - 1st ed. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2007. - vi, 287 p. :ill. - Religion/culture/critique. - Religion/culture/critique..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ethnic curses as "last resort of the weak" in Genesis 9:18-28 and Joshua 9:22-27 / Brian Britt -- Promiscuous or proper? Nymphs as female role models in Ancient Greece / Ann-Marie Knoblauch -- Hercules in a skirt, or the feminization of victory during the Roman civil wars and early empire / Carlin Barton -- "The sweepings of Lamia" : transformations of the myths of Lilith and Lamia / Irven M. Resnick and Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr. -- Cross-dressing and female same-sex marriage in medieval French and Arabic literatures / Sahar Amer -- Reorienting Christian "Amazons" : women warriors in medieval Islamic literature in the context of the Crusades / Alexandra Cuffel -- Hunters and boundariesin Mande cultures / Stephen Belcher -- Peripheral inclusion : communal belonging in Suriname's Sephardic community / Aviva Ben-Ur -- The vain, exotic, and erotic feather : dress, gender, and power insixteenth- and seventeenth-century England / Catherine Howey -- S(m)oothing the savage('s) b(r)east: covering and colonialism in the age of Euro-American expansion / Adam Knobler -- European family lawand the people of the frontier / James Muldoon.

This book compares shifting formulations of gender, interfaith, and ethnic relations in the Near East, Europe, the Americas, and Africa from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Contributors address three areasin pre-modern gender, religious, and cultural encounters: depictions of homosexual and transgendered behaviors, conceptualizations of femininity and masculinity, and the marriageability of ethnic and religious minorities.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230604292

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230604292doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

177553
Gender Identity.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HQ21 / .R427 2007eb

Dewey Class. No.: 306.7089

National Library of Medicine Call No.: 2007 K-016

Religion, gender, and culture in the pre-modern world
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