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The Gendered Palimpsest
Kim Haines-Eitzen
其他書名
Women, Writing, and Representation in Early Christianity
出版OUP USA, 2012
主題History / Ancient / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Women AuthorsLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / WomenReligion / Christianity / Literature & the ArtsReligion / Christianity / HistoryReligion / Christian Church / HistorySocial Science / Women's Studies
ISBN01951712929780195171297
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LJMHHVU1ABsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Books and bodies, women and books lie thematically at the center of The Gendered Palimpsest, which explores the roles that women played in the production, reproduction, and dissemination of early Christian books, and how the representation of female characters is contested through the medium of writing and copying. The book is organized in two sections, the first of which treats historical questions: To what extent were women authors, scribes, book-lenders, and patrons of early Christian literature? How should we understand the representation of women readers in ascetic literature? The second section of the book turns to text-critical questions: How and why were stories of women modified in the process of copying? And how did debates about asceticism - and, more specifically, the human body - find their way into the textual transmission of canonical and apocryphal literature? Throughout, Haines-Eitzen uses the notion of a palimpsest in its broadest sense to highlight the problems of representation, layering, erasure, and reinscription. In doing so, she provides a new dimension to the gendered history of early Christianity.