QUEERS ON ACCOUNT OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN: RHETORICAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE EUNUCH BODY

  • J. David Hester Department of New Testament, Unisa Interfakultäres Zentrum für Ethik in den Wissenschaften

Abstract

The body of the eunuch has been a source of tremendous rhetorical (not to mention social, moral, legal and political) contestation. In the ancient world, where the predominant “single-sex” model of human sexual identity and development demanded conformity to cleary differentiated roles between men and women, the eunuch transgressed this division. The purpose of the following paper is to explore the variety of ways in which the eunuch body was (and continues to be) confronted, constrained and defined by a “natural” heterosexist ideology striving to maintain its hegemony over sex-gender identity.

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2013-06-12
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