Religion, Gender, and Culture in the Pre-Modern World

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Ethnic Curses as “Last Resort of the Weak” in Genesis 9:18–28 and Joshua 9:22–27

Chapter 3 Promiscuous or Proper? Nymphs as Female Role Models in Ancient Greece

Chapter 4 Hercules in a Skirt, or the Feminization of Victory during the Roman Civil Wars and Early Empire

Chapter 5 “The Sweepings of Lamia”: Transformations of the Myths of Lilith and Lamia

Chapter 6 Cross-Dressing and Female Same-Sex Marriage in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures

Chapter 7 Reorienting Christian “Amazons”: Women Warriors in Medieval Islamic Literature in the Context of the Crusades

Chapter 8 Hunters and Boundaries in Mande Cultures

Chapter 9 Peripheral Inclusion: Communal Belonging in Suriname’s Sephardic Community

Chapter 10 The Vain, Exotic, and Erotic Feather: Dress, Gender, and Power in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England

Chapter 11 S(m)oothing the Savage(’s) B(r)east: Covering and Colonialism in the Age of Euro-American Expansion