TransAntiquity Cross-Dressing and Transgender Dynamics in the Ancient World [Hardcover]

TransAntiquityexplores 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 social capital, as well as the reactions of institutionalized power and the juridical systems. The variety of subjects and approaches demonstrates just how complex and widespread transgender dynamics were in antiquity.

Domitilla Campanile, Filippo Carl?-Uhink, and Margherita Facella, Preface

1. Filippo Carl?-Uhink, Between the Human and the Divine: Cross-Dressing and Transgender Dynamics in the Graeco-Roman World

 

2. Andrea Raggi, Cross-Dressing in Rome between Norm and Practice

 

3. Domitilla Campanile, The Patrician, the General and the Emperor in Womens Clothes. Examples of Cross-Dressing in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome

 

4. Martijn Icks, Cross-Dressers in Control. Transvestism, Power and the Balance between the Sexes in the Literary Discourse of the Roman Empire

Part 2: Ancient Transgender Dynamics and the Sacred Sphere

5. Valerio Simini, Cross-Dressing and the Sexual Symbolism of the Divine Sphere in Pharaonic Egypt

 

6. Fiorella La Guardia, Aspects of Transvestism in Greek Myths and Rituals

 

7. Margherita Facella, Beyond Ritual: Cross-Dressing between Greece and the OrielÃ*