Title: Gender in the Premodern Mediterranean
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.
Subjects: Sex role, History, Gender identity, Women, Social conditions, Sex role in literature, Gender identity in literature