TY  - BOOK
AU  - Betancourt,Roland
TI  - Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages 
SN  - 9780691210889
AV  - DF531 .B48 2020
U1  - 949.5/02 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Intersectionality (Sociology)
KW  - Byzantine Empire
KW  - Mittelalter
KW  - gnd
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Abortion
KW  - Adultery
KW  - Allusion
KW  - Asceticism
KW  - Basil II
KW  - Birth control
KW  - Byzantine art
KW  - Castration
KW  - Chastity
KW  - Christian monasticism
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Conflation
KW  - Constantinople
KW  - Cross-dressing
KW  - Doubting Thomas
KW  - Effeminacy
KW  - Elagabalus
KW  - Eroticism
KW  - Ethiopian eunuch
KW  - Eunuch
KW  - Femininity
KW  - Fornication
KW  - Gender identity
KW  - Gender role
KW  - Gynecomastia
KW  - Homily
KW  - Hosios Loukas
KW  - Iconography
KW  - Incest
KW  - Indication (medicine)
KW  - Infanticide
KW  - Intersectionality
KW  - Invective
KW  - John Chrysostom
KW  - John Malalas
KW  - Late Antiquity
KW  - Literature
KW  - Lori Allen
KW  - Mary of Egypt
KW  - Masculinity
KW  - Mastectomy
KW  - Mount Athos
KW  - Narrative
KW  - Nipple
KW  - Oppression
KW  - Persecution
KW  - Physician
KW  - Promiscuity
KW  - Prostitution
KW  - Queer
KW  - Racism
KW  - Religious text
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Sex worker
KW  - Sexual desire
KW  - Sexual identity
KW  - Sexual intercourse
KW  - Slut-shaming
KW  - Sodomy
KW  - Subjectivity
KW  - Suggestion
KW  - Text (literary theory)
KW  - The Various
KW  - Theotokos
KW  - Transgender
KW  - Treatise
KW  - Vatican City
KW  - Virginity
KW  - White people
KW  - Writing
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Note on the Text --; Introduction --; I. The Virgin’s Consent --; II. Slut-Shaming an Empress --; III. Transgender Lives --; IV. Queer Sensations --; V. The Ethiopian Eunuch --; Epilogue --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; Photo Credits; restricted access
N2  - A fascinating history of marginalized identities in the medieval worldWhile the term “intersectionality” was coined in 1989, the existence of marginalized identities extends back over millennia. Byzantine Intersectionality reveals the fascinating, little-examined conversations in medieval thought and visual culture around sexual and reproductive consent, bullying and slut-shaming, homosocial and homoerotic relationships, trans and nonbinary gender identities, and the depiction of racialized minorities. Roland Betancourt explores these issues in the context of the Byzantine Empire, using sources from late antiquity and early Christianity up to the early modern period. Highlighting nuanced and strikingly modern approaches by medieval writers, philosophers, theologians, and doctors, Betancourt offers a new history of gender, sexuality, and race.Betancourt weaves together art, literature, and an impressive array of texts to investigate depictions of sexual consent in images of the Virgin Mary, tactics of sexual shaming in the story of Empress Theodora, narratives of transgender monks, portrayals of same-gender desire in images of the Doubting Thomas, and stereotypes of gender and ethnicity in representations of the Ethiopian Eunuch. He also gathers evidence from medical manuals detailing everything from surgical practices for late terminations of pregnancy to save a mother’s life to a host of procedures used to affirm a person’s gender.Showing how understandings of gender, sexuality, and race have long been enmeshed, Byzantine Intersectionality offers a groundbreaking look at the culture of the medieval world
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691210889?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691210889
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691210889/original
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