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Barbara Newman: Byzantine Intersectionality, 26 September 2024
Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender and Race in the Middle Ages
by Roland Betancourt.
Princeton, 274 pp., £28, March 2023,978 0 691 24354 2 Show More
by Roland Betancourt.
Princeton, 274 pp., £28, March 2023,
“... as metaphysically – to ‘become male’? In his provocative study of Byzantine sex and gender, Roland Betancourt points out that more than the adoption of masculine dress was at stake. Ascetic fasting withered the breasts, hardened the facial features and caused menstruation to cease. Skin hues could also change: both cis female and trans male ... ”
