PARCHMENTS OF GENDER. Deciphering the Body in Antiquity.

First edition. Publisher's original navy blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with 22 black and white illustrations. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping at the spine tips, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper, which has a couple of tiny marks to the rear panel.

A collection of essays by Maria Wyke, Senior Lecturer in classics at the University of Reading, offering an important source of inter-disciplinary information for the study of gender and the body in ancient history.