Saint Thecla: Body Politics and Masculine Rhetoric

This volume questions the prevailing 'female empowering' interpretation of Thecla in the Acts of Paul and Thecla....
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Author: Rosie Andrious
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Language: English
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Saint Thecla: Body Politics and Masculine Rhetoric by Andrious, Rosie

Saint Thecla: Body Politics and Masculine Rhetoric

$807.02

Saint Thecla: Body Politics and Masculine Rhetoric

$807.02
Author: Rosie Andrious
Format: Paperback
Language: English

This volume questions the prevailing 'female empowering' interpretation of Thecla in the Acts of Paul and Thecla. Rosie Andrious examines the way that Thecla is voyeuristically paraded and subjected to a kind of sado-erotic torture, and demonstrates how this perception clashes with any notion that she is presented as a positive role-model for a woman.

Rather, Andrious sets this discourse about female 'self-control' and 'chastity' over against the wider narrative of Christian men struggling against the invasive violence of Rome and suggests that the victimized, voyeuristic female representation of Thecla has very little to do with women and is, rather, a complex literary text that represents a power struggle between men. The ideological function of Thecla is therefore, as a constructed body that transcends its 'natural' feminine weakness. Andrious thus provides an original interpretative framework for understanding Thelca's representation, and suggests a completely new way of seeing the saint.

Author: Rosie Andrious
Publisher: T&T Clark
Published: 05/19/2022
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.52d
ISBN: 9780567699084

About the Author
Rosie Andrious completed her PhD in Biblical Studies and Early Christianity at King's College London, UK, where she is currently a Research Associate.

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