ABSTRACT
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 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|82 pages
Transgender dynamics in the ancient social and political space
chapter 1|35 pages
“Between the human and the divine”
chapter 3|13 pages
The patrician, the general and the emperor in women’s clothes
chapter 4|18 pages
Cross-dressers in control
part 2|51 pages
Ancient transgender dynamics and the sacred sphere
part 3|44 pages
Transgender as subversive literary discourse
chapter 9|15 pages
“O saffron robe, to what pass have you brought me!”
part 4|37 pages
Transgender myth
