Add to ORKGThe notion that sexuality in the Greek and Roman periods was predicated on a social-sexual hierarchy that casts relationships in the binary terms of active/passive and penetrator/penetrated has been both influential and controversial over the last 30 years. Both the articulation of this hierarchy and its critique have been haunted by various gendered and identitarian investments, leading to several theoretical and historical impasses. This essay offers up a second century Christian text, the Acts of Paul and Thecla, as an intervention into this debate and the impasses it produced -- that is, as an inquiry into the continuing predominance of penetrative models for relationality in contemporary theory, as well as the near-total subsuming of a...
The Apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla tells an ascetic tale that discusses a young woman’s journey ...
Experts in human sexuality have theorized that a person’s sexual orientation is the result of a numb...
Rape is a motif found in numerous religious texts of late Greco-Roman antiquity, often explicitly. A...
This provocative work provides a radical reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexua...
Recent studies regarding multiple sexualities in Greek and Roman Antiquity (or at least practices th...
Studies of ancient sexualities and masculinities has increased since the publication of Foucaults fi...
Current studies on the topic of sexuality in the ancient Greek world tend to favour the active/passi...
The first large-scale application of feminist theory to the study of Greek and Roman cultures, this ...
From courtship and marriage to adultery and prostitution, Sex and Sexuality in Classical Athens take...
Scholarly accounts of sexuality in the ancient world have placed much emphasis on the normative dich...
Typically, when scholars have sought to identify Pauline ethics about sexuality, they have turned p...
This dissertation investigates adultery and the appropriation of ritual space in Classical Greece, f...
The Making of Fornication: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christia...
Scholarly accounts of sexuality in the ancient world have placed much emphasis on the normative dich...
Typically, when scholars have sought to identify Pauline ethics about sexuality, they have turned pr...
The Apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla tells an ascetic tale that discusses a young woman’s journey ...
Experts in human sexuality have theorized that a person’s sexual orientation is the result of a numb...
Rape is a motif found in numerous religious texts of late Greco-Roman antiquity, often explicitly. A...
This provocative work provides a radical reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexua...
Recent studies regarding multiple sexualities in Greek and Roman Antiquity (or at least practices th...
Studies of ancient sexualities and masculinities has increased since the publication of Foucaults fi...
Current studies on the topic of sexuality in the ancient Greek world tend to favour the active/passi...
The first large-scale application of feminist theory to the study of Greek and Roman cultures, this ...
From courtship and marriage to adultery and prostitution, Sex and Sexuality in Classical Athens take...
Scholarly accounts of sexuality in the ancient world have placed much emphasis on the normative dich...
Typically, when scholars have sought to identify Pauline ethics about sexuality, they have turned p...
This dissertation investigates adultery and the appropriation of ritual space in Classical Greece, f...
The Making of Fornication: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christia...
Scholarly accounts of sexuality in the ancient world have placed much emphasis on the normative dich...
Typically, when scholars have sought to identify Pauline ethics about sexuality, they have turned pr...
The Apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla tells an ascetic tale that discusses a young woman’s journey ...
Experts in human sexuality have theorized that a person’s sexual orientation is the result of a numb...
Rape is a motif found in numerous religious texts of late Greco-Roman antiquity, often explicitly. A...