Religion, Gender, and Culture in the Pre-Modern World

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction....Pages 1-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Ethnic Curses as “Last Resort of the Weak” in Genesis 9:18–28 and Joshua 9:22–27....Pages 25-45
Promiscuous or Proper? Nymphs as Female Role Models in Ancient Greece....Pages 47-62
Hercules in a Skirt, or the Feminization of Victory during the Roman Civil Wars and Early Empire....Pages 63-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
“The Sweepings of Lamia”: Transformations of the Myths of Lilith and Lamia....Pages 77-104
Cross-Dressing and Female Same-Sex Marriage in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures....Pages 105-135
Reorienting Christian “Amazons”: Women Warriors in Medieval Islamic Literature in the Context of the Crusades....Pages 137-166
Hunters and Boundaries in Mande Cultures....Pages 167-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Peripheral Inclusion: Communal Belonging in Suriname’s Sephardic Community....Pages 185-210
The Vain, Exotic, and Erotic Feather: Dress, Gender, and Power in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England....Pages 211-240
S(m)oothing the Savage(’s) B(r)east: Covering and Colonialism in the Age of Euro-American Expansion....Pages 241-250
European Family Law and the People of the Frontier....Pages 251-264
Back Matter....Pages 265-287