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

Title
Religion, gender, and culture in the pre-modern world / edited by Alexandra Cuffel and Brian Britt.
Publication
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Cuffel, Alexandra.
  • Britt, Brian M., 1964-
Description
vi, 287 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
Series Statement
Religion/culture/critique
Uniform Title
Religion/culture/critique
Subject
  • Geschichte
  • Gender identity > History
  • Sex differences > History
  • Anthropology of religion
  • Ethnic relations > History
  • Gender identity
  • Culture
  • Ethnic groups
  • Medicine, Medieval
  • Sex factors in disease
  • Gender Identity
  • Culture
  • Ethnicity
  • History, Ancient
  • History, Medieval
  • Religion > history
  • Sex Factors
  • anthropology of religion
  • sex role
  • culture note
  • ethnic groups
  • culture (concept)
  • Sex factors in disease
  • Medicine, Medieval
  • Ethnic groups
  • Anthropology of religion
  • Ethnic relations
  • Gender identity
  • Sex differences
  • Geschlechtsidentität
  • Religion
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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 boundaries in 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 in sixteenth- 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 law and the people of the frontier / James Muldoon.
ISBN
  • 9781403972187
  • 1403972184
  • 0230604293
  • 9780230604292
LCCN
2006049108
OCLC
  • ocm70839813
  • 70839813
  • SCSB-1426816
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library