TY - BOOK ID - 68834995 TI - Saint Thecla : body politics and masculine rhetoric PY - 2020 VL - 617 SN - 25138790 SN - 9780567691767 0567691764 9780567691774 9780567691798 0567691799 0567691772 PB - London Bloomsbury T&T Clark DB - UniCat KW - Thecla, KW - Acts of Paul and Thecla. KW - Acts of Paul KW - Acts of Paul. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - 229*42 KW - 235.3 KW - 235.3 Hagiografie KW - 235.3 Hagiographie KW - Hagiografie KW - Hagiographie KW - 229*42 Apocriefe handelingen der apostelen van Andreas, Barnabas, Philippus, Jacobus, Johannes, Matthaeus, Paulus, Petrus, Pilatus, Thomas, Paulus en Thecla, Petrus en Paulus KW - Apocriefe handelingen der apostelen van Andreas, Barnabas, Philippus, Jacobus, Johannes, Matthaeus, Paulus, Petrus, Pilatus, Thomas, Paulus en Thecla, Petrus en Paulus KW - Ḟēkla, KW - Tecla, KW - Thècle, KW - Thekla, KW - Acta Pauli et Theclae KW - Actes de Paul et Thècle KW - Bible. KW - Paul, Acts of KW - Acti Pauli KW - Apocryphal Acts of Paul KW - Thecla, - Saint. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:68834995 AB - "This volume questions the prevailing 'female empowering' interpretation of Thecla in the Acts of Paul and Thecla. Rosie Andrious examines the way that Thecla is voyeuristically paraded and subjected to a kind of sado-erotic torture, and demonstrates how this perception clashes with any notion that she is presented as a positive role-model for a woman. Rather, Andrious sets this discourse about female 'self-control' and 'chastity' over against the wider narrative of Christian men struggling against the invasive violence of Rome and suggests that the victimized, voyeuristic female representation of Thecla has very little to do with women and is, rather, a complex literary text that represents a power struggle between men. The ideological function of Thecla is therefore, as a constructed body that transcends its 'natural' feminine weakness. Andrious thus provides an original interpretative framework for understanding Thelca's representation, and suggests a completely new way of seeing the saint"-- ER -