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Byzantine Intersectionality - Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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Byzantine Intersectionality - Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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A fascinating history of marginalized identities in the medieval
world While the term "intersectionality" was coined in 1989, the
existence of marginalized identities extends back over millennia.
Byzantine Intersectionality reveals the fascinating,
little-examined conversations in medieval thought and visual
culture around sexual and reproductive consent, bullying and
slut-shaming, homosocial and homoerotic relationships, trans and
nonbinary gender identities, and the depiction of racialized
minorities. Roland Betancourt explores these issues in the context
of the Byzantine Empire, using sources from late antiquity and
early Christianity up to the early modern period. Highlighting
nuanced and strikingly modern approaches by medieval writers,
philosophers, theologians, and doctors, Betancourt offers a new
history of gender, sexuality, and race. Betancourt weaves together
art, literature, and an impressive array of texts to investigate
depictions of sexual consent in images of the Virgin Mary, tactics
of sexual shaming in the story of Empress Theodora, narratives of
transgender monks, portrayals of same-gender desire in images of
the Doubting Thomas, and stereotypes of gender and ethnicity in
representations of the Ethiopian Eunuch. He also gathers evidence
from medical manuals detailing everything from surgical practices
for late terminations of pregnancy to save a mother's life to a
host of procedures used to affirm a person's gender. Showing how
understandings of gender, sexuality, and race have long been
enmeshed, Byzantine Intersectionality offers a groundbreaking look
at the culture of the medieval world.
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