Abstract
This paper discusses the different elements of desire that are part of the discourse on chastity in Jerome's eulogies of and prescriptions for ascetic women. All the elements concern bodily desire, and are closely interwoven in a complex structure of domination and subordination. Sexual desire is the dominating force, which can only be overcome through control of all other kinds of bodily desire. Jerome's instructions to women reveal underlying notions of inner and outer identity, physical and social body, visibility and seclusion that make up vital ingredients in the ascetic persons quest for the spiritual body.
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