The Manly Eunuch
Subtitle: Masculinity, Gender Ambiguity, and Christian Ideology in Late Antiquity (The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: July 25, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780226457390
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; History of ideas, intellectual history; Men's studies; Philosophy of religion; Social & cultural anthropology; BCE to c 500 CE; c 500 CE to c 1000 CE; Religion; Sociology; Ancient Rome; Ancient - Rome; Human Sexuality; Men's Studies - Masculinity; Psychology & Psychiatry / Human Sexuality; History; Christianity; Masculinity; Religious aspects; Rome; To 1500
First sentence: Roman notions of sexual difference relied heavily on the absoluteness of the divide between male and female.