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Women and Modesty in Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
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Women and Modesty in Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
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This book offers a fresh approach to some of the most studied
documents relating to Christian female asceticism in the Roman era.
Focusing on the letters of advice to the women of the noble Anicia
family, Kate Wilkinson argues that conventional descriptions of
feminine modesty can reveal spaces of agency and self-formation in
early Christian women's lives. She uses comparative data from
contemporary ethnographic studies of Muslim, Hindu, and indigenous
Pakistani women to draw out the possibilities inherent in codes of
modesty. Her analysis also draws on performance studies for close
readings of Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome and Pelagius. The book
begins by locating itself within the complex terrain of feminist
historiography, and then addresses three main modes of modest
behavior - dress, domesticity and silence. Finally, it addresses
the theme of false modesty and explores women's agency in light of
Augustinian and Pelagian conceptions of choice.
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