LEADER 02948nam 22004093a 450 001 9910888044403321 005 20250701123301.0 010 $a9783161622915 010 $a316162291X 035 $a(CKB)5840000000257465 035 $a(ScCtBLL)874e31f4-c8c4-4e7b-ad5d-2f94e7f62ab5 035 $a(EXLCZ)995840000000257465 100 $a20240802i20242024 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aFemale Bodies and Female Practitioners $eGynaecology, Women's Bodies, and Expertise in the Ancient to Medieval Mediterranean and Middle East /$fLennart Lehmhaus 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cMohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. KG,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (541 p.) 311 08$a9783161622908 311 08$a3161622901 330 $aThe contributions collected here discuss the emergence, transfer and transformations of theoretical and practical gynaecologic knowledge in ancient medical and other traditions. The authors investigate the cultural practices and socio-religious norms that enabled and constrained the production and application of gynaecologic knowledge and know-how - for example, concepts of the female body, ritual im/purity, or myth. Some studies focus more on the role and function of female patients and medical specialists - female doctors, healers, midwives or wet-nurses - as objects and subjects within ancient medical discourses. The interdisciplinary nature of the studies provides ample opportunity for a comparative exploration of female bodies and medical expertise on them across the geographically diverse but culturally often closely entangled Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Graeco-Roman, Persian, Byzantine, early Christian, Jewish-Talmudic, and Syriac cultures. Similarities and differences can be discerned in the various realms - ranging from the adoption of medical terminology or development of loanwords/calques, and the transfer and appropriation of certain gynaecologic theories, metaphors and concepts to more structural questions about the discursive representation of such knowledge and its (con)textual incorporation. The volume aims to help stimulate a fruitful interdisciplinary and trans-generational exchange about the topic, drawing on a wide range of methodological and theoretical tools, including philology, linguistics, narratology/close reading, literary and discursive analysis, material culture, socio-historical perspectives, gender studies, or cultural and religious history. 606 $aHistory / Ancient$2bisacsh 606 $aHistory / Essays$2bisacsh 606 $aHistory 615 7$aHistory / Ancient 615 7$aHistory / Essays 615 0$aHistory. 702 $aLehmhaus$b Lennart 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910888044403321 996 $aFemale Bodies and Female Practitioners$94233469 997 $aUNINA