Dying to Be Men: Gender and Language in Early Christian Martyr Texts by L. Stephanie Cobb

Dying to Be Men: Gender and Language in Early Christian Martyr Texts

Gender, Theory, and Religion

L. Stephanie Cobb

208 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction gender history religion reflective medium-paced
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At once brave and athletic, virtuous and modest, female martyrs in the second and third centuries were depicted as self-possessed gladiators who at the same time exhibited the quintessentially "womanly" qualities of modesty, fertility, and beauty....

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