The perfect servant
Subtitle: eunuchs and the social construction of gender in Byzantium
By: Kathryn M. Ringrose.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chicago; London; University of Chicago Press
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Eunuchs -- Byzantine Empire.; Sex role -- Byzantine Empire.; Byzantine Empire -- Civilization.
Description: Kathryn Ringrose uses the modern concept of gender as a social construct to identify eunuchs as a distinct gender and to illustrate how gender was defined in the Byzantine world.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 257-285. - Includes index.