Open AccessReadings Behind the Early Christian Queer Experiences
Author(s) -
Larisa Orlov Vilimonović
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
narodna umjetnost
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1848-865X
pISSN - 0547-2504
DOI - 10.15176/vol58no206
Subject(s) - queer , passions , queer theory , antique , gender studies , early christianity , context (archaeology) , performativity , sociology , transgender , christianity , aesthetics , art , history , religious studies , philosophy , literature , visual arts , archaeology
This paper deals with the ideas of queer experiences in the Early Christian movement, seen through early Christian epistemologies of gender and patristic thought focused on sex differences. The lives and passions of transgender nuns are used in discussing various aspects of gender fluidity in early Christianity. Theoretically, the paper rests onthe idea of the performativity of gender, that is, on the ways gender was constructed and how body modifications enabled renegotiation of gender categories. It also focuses on the social context of queer experiences in the late antique period with regard to Roman social norms.