Unreliable witnesses : religion, gender, and history in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean /

Kraemer analyzes how gender provides the historically obfuscating substructure of diverse texts. While attentive to arguments that women are largely fictive proxies in elite male contestations over masculinity, authority and power, Kraemer retains her focus on redescribing and explaining women'...

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Main Author: Kraemer, Ross Shepard, 1948-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Kraemer analyzes how gender provides the historically obfuscating substructure of diverse texts. While attentive to arguments that women are largely fictive proxies in elite male contestations over masculinity, authority and power, Kraemer retains her focus on redescribing and explaining women's religious practices.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 322 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-304) and index.
ISBN:9780199781201
0199781206
9780199743186
0199743185