Becoming Men, Staying Women: Gender Ambivalence in Christian Apocryphal Texts and Contexts
The motif of women becoming men, taking on manly characteristics, or being made male appears in several Christian Apocryphal texts. This essay investigates the reasons behind this motif in terms of the cultural context without evaluating whether the attitude towards women which this particular motif...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage
2010
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Feminist theology
Year: 2010, Volume: 18, Issue: 3, Pages: 341-355 |
Further subjects: | B
gender-ambivalence
B Early Christianity B Apocrypha B Late Antiquity |
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