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Religion, Gender, and Culture in the Pre-Modern World

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Alexandra Cuffel,
Brian Britt

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-vii

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Introduction
1. Introduction
  
  Alexandra Cuffel, Brian Britt
  
  Pages 1-22
Ancient Cultures
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 23-23
  
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2. Ethnic Curses as “Last Resort of the Weak” in Genesis 9:18–28 and Joshua 9:22–27
  
  Brian Britt
  
  Pages 25-45
3. Promiscuous or Proper? Nymphs as Female Role Models in Ancient Greece
  
  Ann-Marie Knoblauch
  
  Pages 47-62
4. Hercules in a Skirt, or the Feminization of Victory during the Roman Civil Wars and Early Empire
  
  Carlin Barton
  
  Pages 63-73
Medieval Cultures
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 75-75
  
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2. “The Sweepings of Lamia”: Transformations of the Myths of Lilith and Lamia
  
  Irven M. Resnick, Kenneth F. Kitchell Jr.
  
  Pages 77-104
3. Cross-Dressing and Female Same-Sex Marriage in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures
  
  Sahar Amer
  
  Pages 105-135
4. Reorienting Christian “Amazons”: Women Warriors in Medieval Islamic Literature in the Context of the Crusades
  
  Alexandra Cuffel
  
  Pages 137-166
5. Hunters and Boundaries in Mande Cultures
  
  Stephen Belcher
  
  Pages 167-182
Early Modern Cultures
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 183-183
  
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2. Peripheral Inclusion: Communal Belonging in Suriname’s Sephardic Community
  
  Aviva Ben-Ur
  
  Pages 185-210
3. The Vain, Exotic, and Erotic Feather: Dress, Gender, and Power in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England
  
  Catherine Howey
  
  Pages 211-240
4. S(m)oothing the Savage(’s) B(r)east: Covering and Colonialism in the Age of Euro-American Expansion
  
  Adam Knobler
  
  Pages 241-250
5. European Family Law and the People of the Frontier
  
  James Muldoon
  
  Pages 251-264
Back Matter

Pages 265-287

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About this book

This book compares shifting formulations of gender, interfaith, and ethnic relations across continents from antiquity to the Nineteenth century. Contributors address three areas: depictions of homosexual and transgendered behaviours, conceptualizations of femininity and masculinity, and the marriageability of ethnic and religious minorities.

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About the authors

BRIAN BRITT is Associate Professor and Director of Religious Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA. He is the author of Walter Benjamin and the Bible and Rewriting Moses.
ALEXANDRA CUFFEL is Assistant Professor of History at Macalester College, USA. She is the author of Filthy Words/Filthy Bodies.

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Religion, Gender, and Culture in the Pre-Modern World
Editors: Alexandra Cuffel, Brian Britt
Series Title: Religion/Culture/Critique
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230604292
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7218-7Published: 08 June 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-53347-3Published: 23 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-60429-2Published: 16 April 2007
Series ISSN: 2945-6355
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6363
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 287
Topics: Sociology of Religion, Gender Studies, World History, Global and Transnational History, Religious Studies, general, Religion and Gender

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