masculinity, gender ambiguity, and Christian ideology in late antiquity /
First Statement of Responsibility
Mathew Kuefler.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Chicago :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Chicago Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2001.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
x, 437 p. ;
Dimensions
24 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
The Chicago series on sexuality, history, and society
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-428) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
"masculine splendor" Sexual difference, gender ambiguity, and the social utility of unmanliness -- "men receive a wound, and submit to a defeat" Masculinity, militarism, and political authority -- "A purity he does not show himself" Masculintiy, the later Roman household, and men's sexuality -- "I am a soldier of Christ" Christian masculinity and militarism -- "We priests have our own nobility" Christian masculintiy and public authority -- "My seed is a hundred times more fertile" Christian Masculintiy, sex and marriane -- "The manliness of faith" Sexual difference and gender ambiguity in latin Christian ideology -- "Eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven" Castration and cChristian manliness.
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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Masculinity-- Religious aspects-- Christianity-- History-- To 1500.