Gender and the Body in the Ancient Mediterranean builds up an important and exciting source of inter-disciplinary information for the study of gender and the body in history. Ranging over the formation of the gendered body in the ancient Near East, Greece, Rome and Judaea, the volume examines ancient bodies as crucial sites for the display, containment or transgression of gender difference.

Gender and the Body demonstrates the central role of antiquity in the developing cultural formation of the gendered body as a concept and a practice in modern societies. Its findings will be extremely useful for the professional historian of gender, as well as an invaluable aid to students investigating women, sexuality, gender and the body (both ancient and modern).