Religion, Gender, and Culture in the Pre-Modern World

Introduction; B.Britt & A.Cuffel PART ONE: ANCIENT CULTURES Ethnic Curses as Last Resort of the Weak in the Hebrew Bible; B.Britt Nymphs, Sexuality, and Young Girls in Ancient Greece; A.Knoblauch Hercules in a Skirt: The Paradox of Victory in the Early Roman Empire; C.Barton PART TWO: MEDIEVAL CULTURES Queer Mediterranean: Queer Sexualities in the Medieval Arab-Islamic World; S.Amer Eunuchs and Amazons: Exploring Gender Diversity in Byzantium; K.Ringrose "The Sweepings of Lamia": Transformations of the Myths of Lilith and Lamia in Christian Anti-Jewish Polemic; I.Resnick & K.F.Kitchell, Jr. Hunters and Boundaries; S.Belcher PART THREE: EARLY MODERN CULTURES The Vain, Exotic, and Erotic Feather: Dress, Gender, and Power in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England; C.Howey Soothing the Savage('s) B(r)east(s): Women's Clothing and Covering in the Discourse of Colonialism; A.Knobler Becoming Jews: Slavery, Conversion, and Upward Mobility in Colonial Suriname; A.Ben-Ur Revolution and the Family: Christian Marriage Law and European Expansion; J.Muldoon Conclusions; B.Britt & A.Cuffel