7. Making Up a Woman: The Face of Roman Gender

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IX
4. Introduction: The Spectacle of the Female Head 1
5. 1. "Put a Bag over Her Head": Beheading Mythological Women 15
6. 2. Shaven Heads and Loose Hair: Buddhist Attitudes toward Hair and Sexuality 32
7. 3. Untangling the Meanings of Hair in Turkish Society 53
8. 4. The Gendered Grammar of Ancient Mediterranean Hair 76
9. 5. Veils, Virgins, and the Tongues of Men and Angels: Women's Heads in Early Christianity 131
10. 6. The Nakedness of a Woman's Voice, the Pleasure in a Man's Mouth: An Oral History of Ancient Judaism 165
11. 7. Making Up a Woman: The Face of Roman Gender 185
12. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 215
13. INDEX 217