Product Description: What Is a Man? enriches our understanding of the paradigm shift produced by feminist theory, that gender is constructed, not "natural," and is political. Indeed, Kampen's essay explores new ground, for as she points out, "few scholars until very recently have written about the way that gender as a category illuminates our understanding of manhood, and fewer still are the archaeologists and art historians who have studied masculinity in late antiquity...read more

Product Description: Sexuality in Ancient Art is the first anthology on the visual representation of the sexual body, sexual activity and desire, and the role of sexuality in the formation of personality and social institutions. Bringing together essays by historians of the art of Egypt and the Ancient Near East, Greece, the Etruscans, and Rome, this collection demonstrates how a variety of methods and theoretical frames can be used to define and articulate these issues...read more