Construction of Masculinity in Antiquity and Early Christianity
By Moisés Mayordomo Marin
Lectio Difficilior, Vol.2 (2006)
Introduction: The classic anthropological discourse has largely been dominated by the concept of an essential, naturally given bipolarity between two sexes, male and female, and by a tacit fusion of male/man and humankind. Within the theological guild it is largely due to the critical ferment of feminist theology that the concept of »man« has been put under scrutiny for the first time. The early feminist agenda rightly brought aspects to the fore like sexism and patriarchy, thus, focusing on the problem of male/man basically as a problem of power, domination and violence. The main impetus in the first period has been to produce socially relevant changes by projecting something like the idea of a »new man«.
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