Altertumswissenschaft
Female Bodies and Female Practitioners
Gynaecology, Women's Bodies, and Expertise in the Ancient to Medieval Mediterranean and Middle East
Edited by Lennart Lehmhaus
[Weibliche Körper und weibliche Praktizierende. Gynäkologie, Frauenkörper und Fachwissen im antiken bis mittelalterlichen Mittelmeerraum und Nahen Osten.]
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Veröffentlicht auf Englisch.
Dieser interdisziplinäre Band widmet sich der Frage, wie der weibliche Körper, Fortpflanzung, Mutterschaft und Gynäkologie, aber auch weibliche medizinisch-heilkundliche Expertise in verschiedenen Kulturen und Texttraditionen des Mittelmeerraums und im Nahen Osten von der Antike bis ins Mittelalter konzipiert und dargestellt wurden.Inhaltsübersicht
I. Conceived Conceptions and Conceptual ControversiesLennart Lehmhaus: Re-reading Gynaecology in the Ancient World – a Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Survey – Lennart Lehmhaus: Female bodies, Gynaecology, and Women's Medical Knowledge and Practice in Ancient Cultures – a Select Bibliography
II. To Cultivate a Field – Thinking about Women's Bodies in Different Traditions
Tanja Pommerening: The Female Body in Ancient Egypt: Sources, Terminology, and Concepts – Siam Bhayro: Gynaecology in Syriac Sources: Theory and Practice – Carmen Caballero Navas: Greco-Latin Gynecology in Jewish Robes: The Hebrew Translation of Muscio's Gynaecia
III. Theorizing Sex, Sexuality and the Female Body
Ulrike Steinert: Created to Bleed: Blood, Women's Bodies, and Gender in Ancient Mesopotamian Medicine – Marzia Soardi: Some Aspects of Aristotle's Gynaecological Considerations – Shanah Strauch Schick: Do Women Emit Seed? Theories of Embryogenesis and the Regulation of Female Masturbation in Rabbinic Literature – Tirzah Meacham: Pregnancy of Minor Girls, Superfetation, and Pregnancy during Lactation in Rabbinic Literature
IV. Silenced Voices and Objectified Bodies – Women as Practitioners and Practices Applied to Women's Bodies
Monika Amsler: Goats or Babies?! A Critical Evaluation of the Teachings by Abaye's Mother (b. Šabbat 134a) and the Relationship between Veterinary and Human Medicine in the Talmud – Tal Ilan: Salome's Medicinal Recipes and Jewish Women Doctors in Antiquity – Samuel Kottek: Caesarean Section in the Talmud: A Renewed Examination of a Historical Enigma – Irene Calà: A Short Remark on the Sixteenth Book of Aetius Amidenus's Libri medicinales: The Case of the Clitoridectomy – Julia Kelto Lillis: Late Ancient Christians and the Rise of Medically Perceptible Virginity