Gender mobility : 7 ideas about gender in the New Testament period / Susan E. Hylen.
| Author/creator | Hylen, Susan author |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York : Oxford University Press, [2025] |
| Description | 174 pages ; 24 cm |
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| Abstract | "This book presents seven ideas about ancient gender norms, which both build upon and push beyond the current scholarly consensus. Two common arguments of these chapters are that Roman gender structures were multiple and diverse and that gender was inseparable from class status. Instead of seeing masculine and feminine norms as a contrasting set of narrow constraints, I argue for a wider array of masculine and feminine virtues, which were enacted in different ways depending on circumstances. Men and women could be rhetorically contrasted in opposite terms, but they also shared a good deal in common, including virtues like self-control as well as economic and social activities. Scholars have long noted the connection between status and gender in the Roman world. I push this insight further to argue that freeborn, freed, or enslaved status played a foundational role in the construction of gender, to the extent that we should consider freeborn men, freeborn women, freed men, freed women, enslaved men, and enslaved women as different genders. Roman society also constructed eunuchs as additional gender options. Viewing ancient gender from this perspective makes it possible to see that some individuals changed genders during their lifetimes, a regular feature of the culture that I identify as gender mobility. Each chapter relates the key idea to the interpretation of New Testament texts"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-163) and indexes. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Hylen, Susan Gender mobility New York : Oxford University Press, [2025] 9780197796795 |
| LCCN | 2025002473 |
| ISBN | 9780197797334 |
| ISBN | 0197797334 |
| ISBN | 9780197798478 hardback |
| ISBN | 0197798470 |
| ISBN | epub |
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