The perfect servant : eunuchs and the social construction of gender in Byzantium /
The Perfect Servant reevaluates the place of eunuchs in Byzantium. Kathryn Ringrose uses the modern concept of gender as a social construct to identify eunuchs as a distinct gender and to illustrate how gender was defined in the Byzantine world. At the same time she explores the changing role of the...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2003.
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Series: | ACLS Fellows' publications.
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Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
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