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Titel: Church Fathers, Independent Virgins Zustand: New Autor: Joyce Salisbury Produktart: Taschenbuch ISBN-10: 0860915964 EAN: 9780860915966 ISBN: 9780860915966 Verlag: Verso Books Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality Thematik: Gender Sex & Relationships, Society & Culture Release date: 17/11/1992 Description: This startling study of early Christian attitudes toward sexuality begins with an account of the different stances adopted by the Church-from the Early Fathers' view that sex and the female body were irredeemably unholy, to Augustine's contention that sex was natural, but lust was evil. While the Church Fathers struggled to reach consistent theoretical conclusions, the underlying conflation of 'women' with 'sex' meant that patristic statements on chastity, virginity and marriage effectively read as ecclesiastical law governing women's conduct. Joyce Salisbury explains the relationship between Church doctrine and the position of women by placing these official views alongside an ascetic tradition which resisted the constraints imposed by sexual intercourse. Through an examination of texts of female and popular authorship, and the extraordinary lives of seven women saints-including the transvestites Castissima and Pelagia-she presents a markedly different picture of sexual and social roles. For many of these women, celibacy became a form of emancipation. Church Fathers, Independent Virgins bears witness to the entrenched power of the Church to oppress, the continuing power of women to overcome, and the enduring effects of medieval sexual attitudes. Sprache: Englisch Herstellungsland und -region: GB Höhe: 236mm Länge: 155mm Breite: 13mm Gewicht: 302g Information fehlt?
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