A01=Bernadette J. Brooten
ancient world
antiquity
Author_Bernadette J. Brooten
belief
bible
biblical
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Category=QRM
christian
christianity
classics
close reading
criticism
cultural
culture
desire
early
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eq_history
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eq_society-politics
erotic
faith
female
gender
historical
history
homoerotic
homoeroticism
interpretation
lesbian
lesbianism
lgbtqia
new testament
queer
religious studies
roman
romance
romantic
rome
sex
sexual
sexuality
women
Product details
- ISBN 9780226075921
- Weight: 595g
- Dimensions: 17 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 1998
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this text Bernadette Brooten examines female homoeroticism and the role of women in the ancient Roman world. Employing a range of cultural sources, from medical texts to astrological horoscopes, Brooten finds evidence of marriages between women, and discusses the surgical procedure of clitoridectomy as a method of controlling female homoeroticism. She establishes the fact that condemnations of female homoerotic practices were based on widespread awareness of sexual love between women. Contrary to the common scholarly notion that early Christian sexual ethics were fundamentally different from those of the surrounding culture, Brooten contends that early Christians and their Roman neighbours shared a view of the "natural order" of society.
