The perfect servant : eunuchs and the social construction of gender in Byzantium / Kathryn M. Ringrose.

The Perfect Servant reevaluates the place of eunuchs in Byzantium. Kathryn Ringrose uses the modern concept of gender as a social construct to identify eunuchs as a distinct gender and to illustrate how gender was defined in the Byzantine world. At the same time she explores the changing role of the...

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Autor principal: Ringrose, Kathryn M.
Format: eBook
Idioma:English
Publicat: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2003.
Col·lecció:ACLS Fellows' publications.
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