Gender and the Body in the Ancient Mediterranean Rural communities The hand has been the

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Gender and the Body in the Ancient Mediterranean Rural communities The hand has been theGender and the Body in the Ancient Mediterranean builds up an important and exciting source of inter disciplinary information for the study of gender and the body in history. Ranging over the formation of the gendered body in the ancient Near East, Greece, Rome and Judaea, the volume examines ancient bodies as crucial sites for the display, containment or transgression of gender difference. Gender and the Body demonstrates the central role of