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The Perfect Servant reevaluates the place of eunuchs in Byzantium. Kathryn Ringrose uses the modern concept of gender as a social construct to identify eunuchs as a distinct gender and to illustrate how gender was defined in the Byzantine world. At the same time she explores the changing role of the eunuch in Byzantium from 600 to 1100. Accepted for generations as a legitimate and functional part of Byzantine civilization, eunuchs were prominent in both the imperial court and the church. They were distinctive in physical appearance, dress, and manner and were considered uniquely suited for important roles in Byzantine life. Transcending conventional notions of male and female, eunuchs lived outside of normal patterns of procreation and inheritance and were assigned a unique capacity for mediating across social and spiritual boundaries. This allowed them to perform tasks from which prominent men and women were constrained, making them, in essence, perfect servants. Written with precision and meticulously researched, The Perfect Servant will immediately take its place as a major study on Byzantium and the history of gender.

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Derrière les façades de luxueux immeubles parisiens, les immenses grilles de châteaux, les baies vitrées de vastes villas de la Côte d'Azur, se cache un personnel invisible mais présent quotidiennement au service des grandes fortunes. Gouvernantes, majordomes, femmes de chambre et de ménage, lingères, nannies, cuisiniers ou chauffeurs travaillent du matin au soir, et souvent la nuit, pour satisfaire les besoins et désirs des millionnaires qui les emploient à leur domicile. En s'appuyant sur une enquête immersive de plusieurs années, ce livre lève le voile sur les relations quotidiennes entre ceux qui servent et ceux qui sont servis. Ce faisant, il éclaire les ressorts d'une cohabitation socialement improbable, faite de domination et de résistances. Elle-même prise dans ces relations, en travaillant un temps comme domestique, Alizée Delpierre montre comment une certaine " exploitation dorée " peut faire rêver des femmes et des hommes qui y voient une réelle opportunité d'ascension sociale. Du côté des grandes fortunes, déléguer toutes les tâches ingrates demeure essentiel pour consolider leur pouvoir et jouir à plein de leur capital. Elles sont prêtes à tout pour fidéliser leurs domestiques et conserver ce privilège de classe, pour le meilleur comme pour le pire.

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