Gender in the Premodern Mediterranean
Publisher: ACMRS Press
Published: Dec 17, 2019
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780866985963
Description: Drawing upon literary, historical and visual evidence, this collection of interdisciplinary essays examines how the Mediterranean shaped practices of gender in the premodern era.  This volume bridges the gap between gender studies and Mediterranean studies, which have a natural fit with each other in their interest on defining identity carefully through connectivity and attentiveness to cultural hegemonies.  The essays in this volume build off of this double approach to offer a unique contribution to the field, and use gender to understand the Mediterranean and the Mediterranean to understand premodern gender.
Notes: Source title: Gender in the Premodern Mediterranean (Volume 539) (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies)