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TransAntiquity: Cross-Dressing and Transgender Dynamics in the Ancient World

By Domitilla Campanile (Editor), Filippo Carlà-Uhink (Editor), Margherita Facella (Editor)
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By Domitilla Campanile (Editor), Filippo Carlà-Uhink (Editor), Margherita Facella (Editor)
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TransAntiquity explores transgender practices, in particular cross-dressing, and their literary and figurative representations in antiquity. It offers a ground-breaking study of cross-dressing, both the social practice and its conceptualization, and its interaction with normative prescriptions on gender and sexuality in the ancient Mediterranean world. Special attention is paid to the reactions of the societies of the time, the impact transgender practices had on individuals’ symbolic and s...

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