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Women and religion --- Women --- Women in Christianity --- History. --- Religious life --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Religion and women --- Women in religion --- Religion --- Sexism in religion --- History --- Religious life&delete& --- History of civilization --- Women and religion - History. --- Women - Religious life - History. --- Women in Christianity - History.

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Ross Shepard Kraemer vividly recreates the religious lives of early Christian, Jewish, and pagan women, with many fascinating examples (...). The relationship among female autonomy, sexuality, and religion emerges as a persistent theme. Analyzing the monastic Jewish Therapeutae and various Christian communities, Kraemer demonstrates the paradoxical liberation which women achieved by rejection of sexuality, the body, and the female. In the epilogue, Kraemer pursues the disturbing implications such findings have for contemporary women. [publisher's description]

Women in Judaism --- Femmes dans le christianisme --- Femmes dans le judaïsme --- Geschichte (30-500) --- Mittelmeerraum --- Mediterranean region. --- Paganism --- Women and religion --- Women in Christianity --- Women --- History. --- History --- Religious life --- Mittelmeerraum. --- Mediterranean region --- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. --- Women - Mediterranean Region - Religious life - History. --- Women and religion - History. --- Women in Judaism - History. --- Women in Christianity - History - Early church, ca. 30-600.

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Women --- Women and religion --- Political activity --- History --- 533.692 --- -Women and religion --- -Women in politics --- Religion and women --- Women in religion --- Religion --- Sexism in religion --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Wing sections --- History. --- -Wing sections --- 533.692 Wing sections --- -533.692 Wing sections --- Women in politics --- Political activity&delete& --- Women - Syria - Mari (extinct city) --- Women - Political activity - History --- Women and religion - History

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The premise of this volume is that the ubiquity of lactation imagery in early modern visual culture and the discourse on breastfeeding in humanist, religious, medical, and literary writings is a distinct cultural phenomenon that deserves systematic study. Chapters by art historians, social and legal historians, historians of science, and literary scholars explore some of the ambiguities and contradictions surrounding the issue, and point to the need for further study, in particular in the realm of lactation imagery in the visual arts. This volume builds on existing scholarship on representations of the breast, the iconography of the Madonna Lactans, allegories of abundance, nature, and charity, women mystics' food-centered practices of devotion, the ubiquitous practice of wet-nursing, and medical theories of conception. It is informed by studies on queer kinship in early modern Europe, notions of sacred eroticism in pre-tridentine Catholicism, feminist investigations of breastfeeding as a sexual practice, and by anthropological and historical scholarship on milk exchange and ritual kinship in ancient Mediterranean and medieval Islamic societies. Proposing a variety of different methods and analytical frameworks within which to consider instances of lactation imagery, breastfeeding practices, and their textual references, this volume also offers tools to support further research on the topic.

History of civilization --- Thematology --- Nutritionary hygiene. Diet --- Iconography --- Mother and child in literature --- Breastfeeding in literature --- Breastfeeding in art --- Women and religion --- Wet nurses in literature --- Breastfeeding --- History --- Mother and child in literature. --- Breastfeeding in literature. --- Breastfeeding in art. --- Wet nurses in literature. --- History. --- Mother and child in literature - History --- Breastfeeding in literature - History --- Breastfeeding in art - History --- Women and religion - History --- Wet nurses in literature - History --- Breastfeeding - History --- Lactation in art --- Lactation in literature --- Arts, Medieval --- Literature, Medieval --- Arts, Renaissance --- European literature --- Renaissance arts --- Breast feeding in literature --- Breast feeding in art --- History and criticism