Description
TransAntiquity explores transgender practices, in particular cross-dressing, and their literary and figurative representations in antiquity. It offers a ground-breaking study of cross-dressing, both the social practice and its conceptualization, and its interaction with normative prescriptions on gender and sexuality in the ancient Mediterranean world. Special attention is paid to the reactions of the societies of the time, the impact transgender practices had on individuals' symbolic and social capital, as well as the reactions of institutionalized power and the juridical systems. The variety of subjects and approaches demonstrates just how complex and widespread "transgender dynamics" were in antiquity.
Author: Domitilla Campanile
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 12/12/2019
Pages: 276
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.58d
ISBN13: 9780367874346
ISBN10: 0367874342
BISAC Categories:
- History | Ancient | General
About the Author
Domitilla Campanile (PhD 1992) is Associate Professor of Roman History at the University of Pisa, Italy.
Filippo Carlà-Uhink is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter, UK. After studying in Turin and Udine, he worked as a lecturer at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and as Assistant Professor for Cultural History of Antiquity at the University of Mainz, Germany.
Margherita Facella is Associate Professor of Greek History at the University of Pisa, Italy. She was Visiting Associate Professor at Northwestern University, USA, and a Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Münster, Germany.
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