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TransAntiquity
TransAntiquity: Cross-Dressing and Transgender Dynamics in the Ancient World | Domitilla Campanile, Filippo Carlà-Uhink, Margherita Facella
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TransAntiquity explores transgender practices, in particular cross-dressing, and their literary and figurative representations in antiquity. It offers a ground-breaking study of cross-dressing, both the social practice and its conceptualization, and its interaction with normative prescriptions on gender and sexuality in the ancient Mediterranean world. Special attention is paid to the reactions of the societies of the time, the impact transgender practices had on individuals’ symbolic and social capital, as well as the reactions of institutionalized power and the juridical systems. The variety of subjects and approaches demonstrates just how complex and widespread "transgender dynamics" were in antiquity.
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EllanaRose
TransAntiquity: Cross-Dressing and Transgender Dynamics in the Ancient World | Domitilla Campanile, Filippo Carlà-Uhink, Margherita Facella
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I have to stop reading this. It was published in 2017 but the language is outdated and offensive. The arguments made in the five essays I've read are weak, based on evidence that can be interpreted in a very different way very easily. I have to stop.
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EllanaRose
TransAntiquity: Cross-Dressing and Transgender Dynamics in the Ancient World | Domitilla Campanile, Filippo Carlà-Uhink, Margherita Facella
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I'm only a little bit into this, but I'm really not sure how to feel about it so far. Anyone read it?
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