de Groot Joanna - Sex, Gender and the Sacred

Gender and History, an international, interdisciplinary journal on the history of femininity, masculinity, and gender relations, publishes annual special issues which are now available in book form. Bringing together path-breaking feminist scholarship with assessments of the field, each volume focuses on a specific subject, question or theme. These books are suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in history, sociology, politics, cultural studies, and gender and women's studies.

Titles in the series include:

Sex, Gender and the Sacred: Reconfiguring Religion in Gender History

Edited by Joanna de Groot and Sue Morgan

Gender History Across Epistemologies

Edited by Donna R. Gabaccia and Mary Jo Maynes

Gender and the City before Modernity

Edited by Lin Foxhall and Gabriele Neher

Historicising Gender and Sexuality

Edited by Kevin P. Murphy and Jennifer M. Spear

Homes and Homecomings: Gendered Histories of Domesticity and Return

Edited by K. H. Adler and Carrie Hamilton

Gender and Change: Agency, Chronology and Periodisation

Edited by Alexandra Shepard and Garthine Walker

Translating Feminisms in China

Edited by Dorothy Ko and Wang Zheng

Visual Genders, Visual Histories: A special Issue of Gender & History

Edited by Patricia Hayes

Violence, Vulnerability and Embodiment: Gender and History

Edited by Shani D'Cruze and Anupama Rao

Dialogues of Dispersal: Gender, Sexuality and African Diasporas

Edited by Sandra Gunning, Tera Hunter and Michele Mitchell

Material Strategies: Dress and Gender in Historial Perspective

Edited by Barbara Burman and Carole Turbin

Gender, Citizenships and Subjectivities

Edited by Kathleen Canning and Sonya Rose

Gendering the Middle Ages: A Gender and History Special Issue

Edited by Pauline Stafford and Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker

Gender and History: Retrospect and Prospect

Edited by Leonore Davidoff, Keith McClelland and Eleni Varikas

Feminisms and Internationalism

Edited by Mrinalini Sinha, Donna Guy and Angela Woollacott

Gender and the Body in the Ancient Mediterranean

Edited by Maria Wyke

Gendered Colonialisms in African History

Edited by Nancy Rose Hunt, Tessie P. Liu and Jean Quataert

EDITED BY

JOANNA DE GROOT
AND

SUE MORGAN

This edition first published 2014
Originally published as Volume 25, Issue 3 of Gender & History
2014 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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Cover image: Statuette of a Female Worshipper R.M.N.-Grand Palais / Chezeville Brothers / Louvre Museum
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Anne E. Bailey completed her doctorate in 2010 and currently holds a postdoctoral research fellowship at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford. Her research interests include saints cults and pilgrimage, hagiography, women's religious history and medical history, focusing chiefly on England during the High Middle Ages.

Esme Cleall is a Lecturer in the History of the British Empire at Sheffield University. Her recent book, Missionary Discourses of Difference: Negotiating Difference in the British Empire, analyses families, sickness and violence in a colonial context. She also works on disability in Britain and in the Empire.

Maya Corry is currently a Research Associate on the three-year ERC-funded project Domestic Devotions: The Place of Piety in the Renaissance Italian Home, 14001600, at the University of Cambridge. She completed her doctorate in the History of Art department at the University of Oxford, with a thesis titled Masculinity and Spirituality in Renaissance Milan: The Role of the Beautiful Body in the Art of Leonardo da Vinci and the Leonardeschi. While at Oxford, she was a Graduate Teaching and Research Scholar at Oriel College and co-convened the annual Italian Renaissance seminar series.

rica Couto-Ferreira is currently working on the project Medical Systems in Transition: The Case of the Ancient Near East at the University of Heidelberg. Her main research interests include gynaecology and diseases of women in cuneiform texts, medical professions in antiquity, constitution and transmission of medical knowledge in the Ancient Near East, and lexicography of the body in Sumerian and Akkadian.

Pat Cullum is Head of History at the University of Huddersfield. She is the editor, with Katherine J. Lewis, of Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages (2005). She has written widely on clerical masculinity, lay piety and hospitals and almshouses in late medieval England.

Joy Dixon is an Associate Professor of History at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She is the author of Divine Feminine: Theosophy and Feminism in England (2001) and co-editor of Religion and Sexuality, a special issue of Victorian Review (2011). Her current project tentatively titled Sexual Heresies: Religion, Science, and Sexuality in Britain, 18701930 explores the impact of the new sexual sciences on religious life in Britain.