The manly eunuch : masculinity, gender ambiguity, and Christian ideology in late antiquity / Mathew Kuefler.
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TextSeries: The Chicago series on sexuality, history, and societyPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.Description: x, 437 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0226457397 (alk. paper)
- 9780226457390
- 155.3/32/0937 21
- BT702 .K84 2001
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-428) and index.
"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" : masculinity, 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 masculinity and public authority -- "My seed is a hundred times more fertile" : Christian masculinity, sex and marriage -- "The manliness of faith" : sexual difference and gender ambiguity in Latin Christian ideology -- "Eunuchs for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven" : castration and Christian manliness.
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