Dying to Be Men Gender and Language in Early Christian Martyr Texts

Name: Dying to Be Men Gender and Language in Early Christian Martyr Texts
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ISBN: 9780231144988

ISBN-10: 0231144989

ISBN-13: 9780231144988

Edition: 2008

Authors: L. Stephanie Cobb

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At once brave and athletic, virtuous and modest, female martyrs in the second and third centuries were depicted as self-possessed gladiators and athletes who the same time exhibited the quintessentially "womanly" qualities of modesty, fertility, and beauty. L. Stephanie Cobb explores the double embodiment of "male" and "female" gender ideals in these figures, connecting them to Greco-Roman virtues and the construction of Christian group identities. Martyrologies strategically place martyrs-male and female alike-as virile combatants in the masculine environment of the amphitheater. They also illustrate masculinity through the language of justice, resistance to persuasion, and-more subtly but…

Book details

List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 9/4/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.93" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction: Constructing Identity Through Cultural Appropriation


Scholarship and Early Christian Martyrologies


Martyrdom and Identity Formation


Christianity and the Roman World: Appropriation or Subversion?



What Is a Christian? Constructing a Christian Identity


Constructing Social Identity


Social Identity Theory Applied


Sex and Gender in Antiquity



Noble Athletes: Gladiatorial, Athletic, and Martial Imagery in the Martyr Acts


Martyrdom and the Amphitheater


The Gladiator in Antiquity


The Athlete and the Soldier in Antiquity



Be a Man: Narrative Tools of Masculinization in Early Christian Martyr Acts


Masculinity and Virtue


Constructing Masculinity by Comparison



Putting Women in Their Place: Masculinizing and Feminizing the Female Martyr


Perpetua


Felicitas


Blandina


Agathonike


Conclusion: Gender and Language in Early Christian Martyr Texts


Notes


Bibliography


Index