Phallacies: Historical Intersections of Disability and Masculinity
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Early Christian Hell, Early Christian Bodies, Punishment, and “Disability” Now and Then Early Christian Hell, Early Christian Bodies, Punishment, and “Disability” Now and Then
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Why Hell? Bodily Suffering, Ethical Norms, and the Early Christian Apocalypses Why Hell? Bodily Suffering, Ethical Norms, and the Early Christian Apocalypses
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The Torments of Hell: A Disciplinary Regime or Bodies Beyond Control? The Torments of Hell: A Disciplinary Regime or Bodies Beyond Control?
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Gender and Bodily Suffering in the Ancient World: Medicine, Judicial Punishment, and Martyrdom Gender and Bodily Suffering in the Ancient World: Medicine, Judicial Punishment, and Martyrdom
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Masculinity and Marking Sin: Hell’s Torments as Effeminizing Punishments Masculinity and Marking Sin: Hell’s Torments as Effeminizing Punishments
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Conclusion: Ableism, Ethics, and the Mechanics of Masculinity in Early Christian Hell Conclusion: Ableism, Ethics, and the Mechanics of Masculinity in Early Christian Hell
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Notes Notes
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13 Weeping and Bad Hair: The Bodily Suffering of Early Christian Hell as a Threat to Masculinity
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Published:September 2017
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Abstract
This chapter draws upon the conceptions of gendered bodily suffering found in the ancient medical corpus (Hippocrates, Galen and inscriptions), martyrdom literature, and the Roman judicial rhetoric of punitive suffering to read apocalyptic depictions of bodily suffering as “effeminizing” punishments, which in turn utilized masculinity and bodily normativity to police behavior, and equated early Christian ethical norms with masculinity and bodily “health.” By highlighting the different types of bodies found in these texts, as well as the ways in which Christian norms interacted with Greek and Roman notions of the body, the chapter shows how masculinity and ancient notions of bodily normativity worked in concert to mark sin in early Christian hell, in turn creating an ancient Christian culture of bodily normativity. These early Christian texts expanded the existing frameworks of bodily suffering as a disciplinary performance and focused on the non-normative body as a punitive spectacle and pedagogical object.
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