• The Ethnography of Gender

    Author(s):
    Maia Kotrosits (see profile)
    Date:
    2023
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Late Antiquity, Early Christianity, gender, Feminist historiography, postcolonial theory
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/rbx8-n238
    Abstract:
    In her 1998 article “The Lady Vanishes,” Elizabeth Clark issued a challenge to the foundationalisms of feminist historiography of Late Antiquity through developments in poststructuralist theory. This article proposes its own reorientation to historical work on gender, but it does so now in light of recent developments in Black feminist, transgender, and postcolonial feminist studies, arguing gender should be understood as always within colonialism and racialization. It describes the way gender appears in the linked projects of the medicalized body and ethnographic discourses, both in antiquity and modernity, and asks about the political stakes and ambivalent histories attending gender as an analytically separable facet of experience. It also offers a brief reframing of the Proto-gospel of James and select scholarship on late ancient Christianity to offer a constructive redirection for the field of Late Antiquity.
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    Pub. DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1525/sla.2023.7.1.5
    Publisher:
    University of California Press
    Pub. Date:
    2023-3-30
    Journal:
    Studies in Late Antiquity
    Volume:
    7
    Issue:
    1
    Page Range:
    5 - 28
    ISSN:
    2470-2048
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    5 months ago
    License:
    Attribution

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