Kathy L Gaca
Biographic Data
| ID | 1429149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathy L Gaca |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathy L |
| FAMILY NAME | Gaca |
| SIGNATURE | GACA K L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ancient warfare beyond the battle
Ancient warfare as aggravated sexual assault en masse against captive women and girls was a complex set of aggressive practices, just like its first-phase counterpart of men killing men in armed conflict. The ulterior motives and degrees of cruelty varied depending on whether the warfare was predatory, expansionist, or retaliatory across and within ethnic lines and regions, including civil strife. This chapter provides a systematic examination of…
From Shame to Sin
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 207 A brief conclusion emphasizes that slaves in history are not irrevocably invisible. The difficulty of seeing slaves is reduced by the self-conscious decision to look for them in the same physical spaces where attention has usually landed on other elements, such as art or the tools that slaves wielded. The ability to see is facilitated by recognizing that one physical environment could in fact be multiple, co-existi…
Telling the Girls from the Boys and Children
In andrapodizing or populace-ravaging ancient warfare, important Greek evidence discloses norms of martial rape meted out to girls and women in the attacked communities. This practice is unambiguously communicated when the sexually assaulted girls are designated in a female-specific way (e.g., as daughters) and they are said to be not yet ready for marriage. My main concern here is to clarify a presently ambiguous area in this regard. I show the …
Manhandled and ‘kicked around’
Reinterpreting the Homeric Simile of Iliad 16.7–11
Though long regarded as a scene of mother-daughter domesticity during peacetime, Iliad 16.7–11 reveals the destruction of normal life for a daughter and her mother on the verge of being captured by ancient Greek warriors. As such it provides exemplary insight into this fundamental aspect of ancient warfare. Further, as reinterpreted here, the simile gains great dramatic and emotive power, strengthens the Homeric characterization of Achilles as a …
Burrus, Virginia, The Sex Lives of Saints
The making of fornication
This work provides a radical reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexual morality, the dominant moral paradigm in Western society since late antiquity. While many scholars, including Michel Foucault, have found the basis of early Christian sexual restrictions in Greek ethics and political philosophy, Gaca demonstrates on compelling new grounds that it is misguided to regard Greek ethics and political theory as the foundation of C…
Paul's Uncommon Declaration in Romans 1
By the late fourth century, prominent Christian leaders no longer remained content to advocate religious separatism from their polytheistic social environment. Instead they started making more strenuous efforts in law and in the streets to prohibit Greek and other pagan religious practices in the Roman Empire. This change in policy and practice was the outcome of historical factors that need better explanation than that of the unavoidable destiny…
Reinterpreting the Homeric Simile of Iliad 16.7–11
Though long regarded as a scene of mother-daughter domesticity during peacetime, Iliad 16.7–11 reveals the destruction of normal life for a daughter and her mother on the verge of being captured by ancient Greek warriors. As such it provides exemplary insight into this fundamental aspect of ancient warfare. Further, as reinterpreted here, the simile gains great dramatic and emotive power, strengthens the Homeric characterization of Achilles as a …
The making of fornication
This work provides a radical reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexual morality, the dominant moral paradigm in Western society since late antiquity. While many scholars, including Michel Foucault, have found the basis of early Christian sexual restrictions in Greek ethics and political philosophy, Gaca demonstrates on compelling new grounds that it is misguided to regard Greek ethics and political theory as the foundation of C…
Manhandled and ‘kicked around’
Telling the Girls from the Boys and Children
In andrapodizing or populace-ravaging ancient warfare, important Greek evidence discloses norms of martial rape meted out to girls and women in the attacked communities. This practice is unambiguously communicated when the sexually assaulted girls are designated in a female-specific way (e.g., as daughters) and they are said to be not yet ready for marriage. My main concern here is to clarify a presently ambiguous area in this regard. I show the …
Paul's Uncommon Declaration in Romans 1
By the late fourth century, prominent Christian leaders no longer remained content to advocate religious separatism from their polytheistic social environment. Instead they started making more strenuous efforts in law and in the streets to prohibit Greek and other pagan religious practices in the Roman Empire. This change in policy and practice was the outcome of historical factors that need better explanation than that of the unavoidable destiny…
The making of fornication
This work provides a radical reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexual morality, the dominant moral paradigm in Western society since late antiquity. While many scholars, including Michel Foucault, have found the basis of early Christian sexual restrictions in Greek ethics and political philosophy, Gaca demonstrates on compelling new grounds that it is misguided to regard Greek ethics and political theory as the foundation of C…
Burrus, Virginia, The Sex Lives of Saints
Reinterpreting the Homeric Simile of Iliad 16.7–11
Though long regarded as a scene of mother-daughter domesticity during peacetime, Iliad 16.7–11 reveals the destruction of normal life for a daughter and her mother on the verge of being captured by ancient Greek warriors. As such it provides exemplary insight into this fundamental aspect of ancient warfare. Further, as reinterpreted here, the simile gains great dramatic and emotive power, strengthens the Homeric characterization of Achilles as a …
Telling the Girls from the Boys and Children
In andrapodizing or populace-ravaging ancient warfare, important Greek evidence discloses norms of martial rape meted out to girls and women in the attacked communities. This practice is unambiguously communicated when the sexually assaulted girls are designated in a female-specific way (e.g., as daughters) and they are said to be not yet ready for marriage. My main concern here is to clarify a presently ambiguous area in this regard. I show the …
Manhandled and ‘kicked around’
From Shame to Sin
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 207 A brief conclusion emphasizes that slaves in history are not irrevocably invisible. The difficulty of seeing slaves is reduced by the self-conscious decision to look for them in the same physical spaces where attention has usually landed on other elements, such as art or the tools that slaves wielded. The ability to see is facilitated by recognizing that one physical environment could in fact be multiple, co-existi…
Ancient warfare beyond the battle
Ancient warfare as aggravated sexual assault en masse against captive women and girls was a complex set of aggressive practices, just like its first-phase counterpart of men killing men in armed conflict. The ulterior motives and degrees of cruelty varied depending on whether the warfare was predatory, expansionist, or retaliatory across and within ethnic lines and regions, including civil strife. This chapter provides a systematic examination of…
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