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The Female Crucifix

Author : Ilse E. Friesen
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889209391
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)

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Book Synopsis The Female Crucifix by : Ilse E. Friesen

Download or read book The Female Crucifix written by Ilse E. Friesen and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring more than twenty illustrations, including several works of art that were rediscovered by the author and are published here for the first time, The Female Crucifix: Images of St. Wilgefortis Since the Middle Ages provides a new perspective on a very old phenomenon. The legendary bearded female St. Wilgefortis, also known by a variety of other names including “Kummernis” and “Uncumber,” was the object of fervent veneration in areas of Western and Central Europe for almost half a millennium. Beginning in the fifteenth century, the legend of her dramatic transformation from a beautiful, privileged princess into a bearded, Christlike martyr on the cross inspired scores of paintings, sculptures, poems, prayers and shrines in her honour all across Europe. In spite of frequent opposition by the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, her cult of veneration at one point nearly rivaled that of the Virgin Mary in some parts of Europe. In this informative and groundbreaking new book, Professor Ilse E. Friesen examines the phenomenon of St. Wilgefortis from an art historical perspective, tracing the origins of depictions of the saint from an early medieval Italian statue known as Volto Santo, or “holy face,” through the emergence of increasingly feminized crucifixes over the course of the subsequent centuries. In particular, Professor Friesen focuses on an analysis of paintings, sculptures and frescoes originating in the German-speaking regions of Bavaria and Tyrol, where the veneration of the saint attained its peak. With its emphasis on art as situated in the context of religion, spirituality, mythology, popular literature and gender relations, this book will have wide appeal.

Virginity Revisited

Author : Bonnie MacLachlan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802090133
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Virginity Revisited written by Bonnie MacLachlan and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Classical Antiquity to the present, virginity has been closely allied with power: as someone who chooses a life of celibacy retains mastery over his or her body. Sexual potency withheld becomes an energy-reservoir that can ensure independence and enhance self-esteem, but it can also be harnessed by public institutions and redirected for the common good. This was the founding principle of the Vestal Virgins of Rome and later in the monastic orders of the middle ages. Mythical accounts of goddesses and heroines who possessed the ability to recover their virginity after sexual experience demonstrate a belief that virginity is paradoxically connected both with social autonomy and the ability to serve the human community. Virginity Revisited is a collection of essays that examines virginity not as a physical reality but as a cultural artefact. By situating the topic of virginity within a range of historical 'moments' and using a variety of methodologies, Virginity Revisited illuminates how chastity provided a certain agency, autonomy, and power to women. This is a study of the positive and negative features of sexual renunciation, from ancient Greek divinities and mythical women, in Rome's Vestal Virgins, in the Christian martyrs and Mariology in the Medieval and early Modern period, and in Grace Marks, the heroine of Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace.

Clothes Make the Man

Author : Valerie R. Hotchkiss
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815337713
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book Clothes Make the Man written by Valerie R. Hotchkiss and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores medieval society's fascination with the cross-dressed woman and examines a wide variety of sources which record attempts to overcome gender hierarchy and illustrate a desire to re-examine social gender identities.

Sapphic Crossings

Author : Ula Lukszo Klein
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813945526
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Sapphic Crossings written by Ula Lukszo Klein and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the eighteenth century in Britain, readers, writers, and theater-goers were fascinated by women who dressed in men’s clothing—from actresses on stage who showed their shapely legs to advantage in men’s breeches to stories of valiant female soldiers and ruthless female pirates. Spanning genres from plays, novels, and poetry to pamphlets and broadsides, the cross-dressing woman came to signal more than female independence or unconventional behaviors; she also came to signal an investment in female same-sex intimacies and sapphic desires. Sapphic Crossings reveals how various British texts from the period associate female cross-dressing with the exciting possibility of intimate, embodied same-sex relationships. Ula Lukszo Klein reconsiders the role of lesbian desires and their structuring through cross-gender embodiments as crucial not only to the history of sexuality but to the rise of modern concepts of gender, sexuality, and desire. She prompts readers to rethink the roots of lesbianism and transgender identities today and introduces new ways of thinking about embodied sexuality in the past.

The Tradition Of Female Cross-Dressing In Early Modern Europe

Author : Rudolf M Dekker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349197521
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book The Tradition Of Female Cross-Dressing In Early Modern Europe written by Rudolf M Dekker and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-02-08 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

MAN-MADE WOMAN

Author : CIARA COLIN. CREMIN
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786801425
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book MAN-MADE WOMAN written by CIARA COLIN. CREMIN and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Challenging Orthodoxies: The Social and Cultural Worlds of Early Modern Women

Author : Melinda S. Zook
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317168763
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Challenging Orthodoxies: The Social and Cultural Worlds of Early Modern Women written by Melinda S. Zook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a broad and eclectic approach to the experience and activities of early modern women, Challenging Orthodoxies presents new research from a group of leading voices in their respective fields. Each essay confronts some received wisdom, ’truth’ or orthodoxy in social and cultural, scientific and intellectual, and political and legal traditions, to demonstrate how women from a range of social classes could challenge the conventional thinking of their time as well as the ways in which they have been traditionally portrayed by scholars. Subjects include women's relationship to guns and gunpowder, the law and legal discourse, religion, public finances, and the new science in early modern Europe, as well as women and indentured servitude in the New World. A testament to the pioneering work of Hilda L. Smith, this collection makes a valuable contribution to scholarship in women’s studies, political science, history, religion and literature.

The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe

Author : Rudolf M. Dekker
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312173340
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe written by Rudolf M. Dekker and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1997 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe, especially in Holland, England and Germany, so many women chose to dress and live as men that an underground tradition of female transvestism within the popular culture can be detected. This study, based on 119 well-documented Dutch cases of female transvestism, is the first of its kind and tells us how these women adapted to male life and why, once discovered, reactions to them were both fierce and varied. It also explores the reasons why they chose to change gender. Special attention is devoted to transvestism by one partner as the only way in which lesbian love was conceivable in this period."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Female Crucifix

Author : Ilse E. Friesen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Female Crucifix written by Ilse E. Friesen and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Masculine Cross and Ancient Sex Worship

Author : Sha Rocco
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Masculine Cross and Ancient Sex Worship written by Sha Rocco and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Masculine Cross and Ancient Sex Worship

Author : Abisha S. Hudson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Masculine Cross and Ancient Sex Worship written by Abisha S. Hudson and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Crucifixion

Author : Fleming Rutledge
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802847323
Total Pages : 695 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The Crucifixion written by Fleming Rutledge and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few treatments of the death of Jesus Christ have made a point of accounting for the gruesome, degrading, public manner of his death by crucifixion, a mode of execution so loathsome that the ancient Romans never spoke of it in polite society. Rutledge probes all the various themes and motifs used by the New Testament evangelists and apostolic writers to explain the meaning of the cross of Christ. She shows how each of the biblical themes contributes to the whole, with the Christus Victor motif and the concept of substitution sharing pride of place along with Irenaeus's recapitulation model.

Drenched in Grace

Author : Lizette Larson-Miller
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1621897532
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Drenched in Grace written by Lizette Larson-Miller and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of baptism within Christian history, theology, and practice is of the first order. Rooted in Christian Scripture, baptism is initiation into Jesus Christ and the sacramental beginning of engagement with the church, the body of Christ. In recent decades, the relationship between baptismal theology and ecclesiology has changed. Rather than focusing solely on the implications of baptism for individuals, the center of theological conversation has moved increasingly to the nature of baptism as formative of the church. One of the pioneers in exploring this theological issue in the United States has been the Rev. Dr. Louis Weil, who, from the time he helped author the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, has advocated for an approach called "baptismal ecclesiology." In a number of essays since the 1980s, Dr. Weil has encouraged an increasingly ecumenical conversation around this particular approach to ecclesiology. This ecumenical collection of essays by a distinguished and international group of sixteen scholars continues the conversation on liturgy and ecclesiology begun by Fr. Weil.

Cross-Dressing in Chinese Opera

Author : Siu Leung Li
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9622096034
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Cross-Dressing in Chinese Opera written by Siu Leung Li and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enchantment of the figure of the "male dan" – female impersonator – remains a residual element in the cultural imagination of many contemporary Chinese societies. The various kinds of interpretive possibilities in the commanding tradition of cross-dressing Chinese opera have yet to be examined in-depth. In order to discuss "mistaken identity" and gender issues as they relate to cross-dressing on the Chinese operatic stage, this book examines a wide range of materials, including traditional dramatic texts, modern literary writings, critical writings (for example, quhua), opera paintings, and contemporary movies. The book explores gendering and gender differences that are constructed, reproduced, dismantled, and contested in this particularly rich site of Chinese culture.

Riddles, Knights, and Cross-dressing Saints

Author : Thomas Honegger
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039103928
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Riddles, Knights, and Cross-dressing Saints written by Thomas Honegger and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises selected papers of SEM IV & V (Studientag Englisches Mittelalter), held at Potsdam in 2002 & 2003, and provides a representative cross-section of topics in the field of English medieval studies in Germany and Switzerland. The spectrum ranges from cultural studies centring around the history of ideas, questions of gender and the reception of the Middle Ages, to philological and linguistic approaches focussing on manuscript studies, semantics and (textual) communication.

The Holy Handmaids of the Lord

Author : Julie Onderko
Publisher : Sophia Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1622827228
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book The Holy Handmaids of the Lord written by Julie Onderko and published by Sophia Institute Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christ wants you to join in His saving work. He has called you to be a holy handmaid, a royal princess, a daughter of the Most High: a fighter alongside your King on the spiritual battlefield for souls. To equip you for this mission, author Julie Onderko here brings you exciting tales about bold female warriors of the spirit, from heroic Old Testament women such as Judith, Deborah, and Esther (who prefigured the most courageous of all, the Virgin Mary) to more recent icons of the Faith, including Saint Clare, Saint Monica, and Saint Faustina. From within their diverse circumstances and vocations, these storied women warriors for Christ will teach you the powerful spiritual tactics that they used in their battles against the devil – and that you can use, too! – tactics that will help you grow holy even as you engage in the profoundest endeavor of all: saving souls for Christ. In the great drama of human history and on a continuing basis, souls are won or lost for eternity. With all the angels and saints – and in particular with the Virgin Mary – you are called to play your part. Open these pages to prepare yourself today! Among the additional holy women you'll meet in these pages are: St. Jane de Chantal St. Margaret Bosco St. Zélie Martin St. Thérèse of Lisieux St. Joan of Arc St. Perpetua

Into the Closet

Author : Victoria Flanagan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136777288
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Into the Closet written by Victoria Flanagan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Into the Closet examines the representation of cross-dressing in a wide variety of children’s fiction, ranging from picture books and junior fiction to teen films and novels for young adults. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the different types of cross-dressing found in children’s narratives, raising a number of significant issues relating to the ideological construction of masculinity and femininity in books for younger readers. Many literary and cultural critics have studied the cultural significance of adult cross-dressing, yet although cross-dressing representations are plentiful in children’s literature and film, very little critical attention has been paid to this subject to date. Into the Closet fills this critical gap. Cross-dressing demonstrates how gender is symbolically constructed through various items of clothing and apparel. It also has the ability to deconstruct notions of problematizing the relationship between sex and gender. Into the Closet is an important book for academics, teachers, and parents because it demonstrates how cross-dressing, rather than being taboo, is frequently used in children’s literature and film as a strategy to educate (or enculturate) children about gender.