Description: Blame it on the Gender offers a multidisciplinary approach to gender studies in Antiquity, containing contributions by international scholars on different ancient geographical contexts where gender and gender relations can be studied. From the Iron Age in northern Spain to Roman Late Antiquity, this volume revises our understanding of people's life in the past. It offers a critical analysis of previous methodological approaches and suggests new techniques. The various contributors discuss gender misconceptions repeated in scholarship over the last few decades and emphasise the need for researchers to consider gender in their own studies. Each contribution offers a recent bibliography for further reading and the chapters cover different masculinities, gender stereotypes, women, and new approaches in archaeology as well as in history, literature, and epigraphy.
Brief description: Maria Cristina de la Escosura Balbás, Elena Duce Pastor, Patricia González Gutiérrez, María del Mar Rodríguez Alcocer and David Serrano Lozano
Review Quotes:
'The authors revisit well-known elements of material culture and texts and they make new readings on them.' Professor Margarita Sánchez Romero, Universidad de Granada
'The research findings in this book would be of considerable interest to international scholars of gender, sexuality and body history in the ancient world.' Dr Peter Keegan, Macquarie University
'It offers a very stimulating and rich exchange between different perspectives, from philology to epigraphy, from history of medicine to theology and film studies.' Dr Irene Salvo, University of Exeter