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.
- Published by
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
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- Additional authors
- 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
- 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.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.