The Ideal Feminine: Gender, Regendering, and Competition in the Acts of Thecla and the Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena

This article offers a close literary and feminist reading of the Acts of Thecla (A. Thecl.) and the Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena (A. Xanthipp.). Although the former is ubiquitous among Christian apocrypha and feminist studies, the latter has received relatively little scholarly attention despite t...

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Main Author: Vuong, Lily C. 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press 2024
In: Journal of early Christian studies
Year: 2024, Volume: 32, Issue: 1, Pages: 101-131
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Acts of Paul and Thecla / Acta Xanthippae et Polyxenae / Christian woman / Femininity / Masculinity / Asceticism / Baptism
IxTheo Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
NBE Anthropology
NBP Sacramentology; sacraments
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