Daughters of Hecate: Women and Magic in the Ancient World

Daughters of Hecate unites for the first time research on the problem of gender and magic in...
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Author: Kimberly B. Stratton
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Language: English
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Daughters of Hecate: Women and Magic in the Ancient World by Stratton, Kimberly B.

Daughters of Hecate: Women and Magic in the Ancient World

CHF 156.00

Daughters of Hecate: Women and Magic in the Ancient World

CHF 156.00
Author: Kimberly B. Stratton
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Daughters of Hecate unites for the first time research on the problem of gender and magic in three ancient Mediterranean societies: early Judaism, Christianity, and Graeco-Roman culture. The book illuminates the gendering of ancient magic by approaching the topic from three distinct disciplinary perspectives: literary stereotyping, the social application of magic discourse, and material culture.

The authors probe the foundations of, processes, and motivations behind gendered stereotypes, beginning with Western culture's earliest associations of women and magic in the Bible and Homer's Odyssey. Daughters of Hecate provides a nuanced exploration of the topic while avoiding reductive approaches. In fact, the essays in this volume uncover complexities and counter-discourses that challenge, rather than reaffirm, many gendered stereotypes taken for granted and reified by most modern scholarship.

By combining critical theoretical methods with research into literary and material evidence, Daughters of Hecate interrogates a false association that has persisted from antiquity, to early modern witch hunts, to the present day.

Author: Kimberly B. Stratton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 11/03/2014
Pages: 552
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.57lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.34w x 1.41d
ISBN: 9780195342710

About the Author
Kimberly B. Stratton is an associate professor in the College of Humanities at Carleton University.

Dayna S. Kalleres is an associate professor in the Program for the Study of Religion and the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.


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