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Byzantine intersectionality, sexuality, gender, and race in the Middle Ages, Roland Betancourt

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-261) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Byzantine intersectionality

bibliography

1142953879

Roland Betancourt

sexuality, gender, and race in the Middle Ages

"Intersectionality, a term coined in 1989, is rapidly increasing in importance within the academy, as well as in broader civic conversations. It describes the study of overlapping or intersecting social identities such as race, gender, ethnicity, nationality, and sexual orientation alongside related systems of oppression, domination, and discrimination. Together, these frameworks are used to understand how systematic injustice or social inequality occurs. In this book, Roland Betancourt examines the presence of marginalized identities and intersectionality in the medieval era. He reveals the fascinating, little-examined conversations in medieval thought and visual culture around matters of sexual and reproductive consent, bullying, non-monogamous marriages, homosocial and homoerotic relationships, trans and non-binary gender identifications, representations of disability, and the oppression of minorities..."--, Provided by publisher