QUEERS ON ACCOUNT OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN: RHETORICAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE EUNUCH BODY
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.Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this Journal.
This is an open access journal, and the authors and journal should be properly acknowledged, when works are cited.
Authors may use the publishers version for teaching purposes, in books, theses, dissertations, conferences and conference papers.
A copy of the authors’ publishers version may also be hosted on the following websites:
- Non-commercial personal webpage or blog.
- Institutional webpage.
- Authors Institutional Repository.
The following notice should accompany such a posting on the website: “This is an electronic version of an article published in Scriptura, Volume XXX, number XXX, pages XXX–XXX”, DOI. Authors should also supply a hyperlink to the original paper or indicate where the original paper (http://scriptura.journals.ac.za/pub) may be found.
Authors publishers version, affiliated with the Stellenbosch University will be automatically deposited in the University’s’ Institutional Repository SUNScholar.
Articles as a whole, may not be re-published with another journal.
The following license applies:
