Transantiquity : cross-dressing and transgender dynamics in the ancient world / edited by Domitilla Campanile, Filippo Carla-Uhink, and Margherita Facella.

Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
London ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2017.
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 250 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

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Subject(s)
Related name
Series
Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies [More in this series]
Summary note
Explores transgender practices, in particular cross-dressing, and their literary and figurative representations in antiquity. It offers a comprehensive study of cross-dressing, both of the social practice and its conceptualization, and of its interaction with normative prescriptions on gender and sexuality in the ancient Mediterranean world.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Part. I. Transgender dynamics in the ancient social and political space
  • part. II. Ancient transgender dynamics and the sacred sphere
  • part. III. Transgender as subversive literary discourse
  • part. IV. Transgender myth.
ISBN
  • 1-315-67384-3
  • 1-317-37737-0
  • 1-317-37738-9
OCLC
973045930
Doi
  • 10.4324/9781315673844
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