Studying gender in the ancient Near East / edited by Saana Svard and Agnes Garcia-Ventura.
"A collection of essays on possible methodological and theoretical approaches to gender within the framework of ancient Near Eastern studies"--Provided by publisher.
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| Language: | English |
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
Eisenbrauns,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Theoretical approaches, gender, and the ancient Near East: an introduction
- From la femme to multiple sex/gender
- Gender in the Tale of Aqhat
- Gender, personal adornment, and costly signaling
- When women get ill: gendered constructions of health and disease in cuneiform texts on healing
- Puppets on a string? On female agency in Old Babylonian economy
- In pursuit of Neo-Assyrian queens: an interdisciplinary methodology for researching ancient women and engendering ancient history
- Postfeminism and Assyriology: an (im)possible relationship?
- Gender experiments in Hellenistic Babylonian figurines
- Gender and methodology in the study of 2nd-millennium B. C. E. family archives
- Neo-Assyrian women, their visibility, and their representation in written and pictorial sources
- Factors complicating the reconstruction of women's lives in Iron Age Israel (1200-587 B. C. E.)
- Empire of the surveilling gaze: the masculinity of King Sennacherib
- Rethinking gender relationships in a sociopolitical context during the time of Zimri-Lim
- Building up a history of art of the ancient Near East: the case of Ebla and the third-millennium B. C. E. court ladies
- (Re)constructing the image of the Assinnu
- After "profits": methodological and historiographic remarks on the study of women, textiles, and economy in the ancient Near East
- Marriage policy in Mari: A field of power between domination and resistance
- Gender studies and Assyriology: expectations of an outsider
- Analyzing constructs: a selection of perils, pitfalls, and progressions in interrogating ancient Near Eastern gender
- Gender and methodology in the ancient Near East: final thoughts.