Women and Modesty in Late Antiquity

ISBN-13: 9781108730242 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 184 str.

Kate Wilkinson

Opis

This book explores how modesty became a creative and performative mode of being for late Roman Christian ascetic women.

Recenzje

'Wilkinson's candor is here is both refreshing and a touch subversive, a tip of the hat to her resistance, even in the face of self-disclosure, to her work's easy categorization. Sitting self-consciously at the intersection of late ancient studies and historical theology, feminist methodology and inquiries into traditionally anti-feminist subject matters, Women and Modesty in Late Antiquity is part delightful provocation, part apt foray into a new era of scholarship, one committed to blurred boundaries and liminal spaces, without compromising literary, linguistic, and historical rigor. That is, surely, a high aim for any scholar's first monograph, and happily it is not beyond the book's reach. As such, I commend it to readers interested in the lives and practices of late ancient women with wholly immodest enthusiasm.' Maria Doerfler, Marginalia

Spis treści

1. Spectacular modesty; 2. Apparel, identity, and agency: Demetrias dresses herself; 3. Publicity and domesticity; 4. The modest mouth; 5. Performance anxiety: hypocrisy and sincerity in the performance of modesty; 6. Modest agencies; Conclusion.