The role of women in work and society in the Ancient Near East / edited by Brigitte Lion and Cécile Michel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lion, Brigitte, editor.

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Class of 1953 Fund.

Series:

Studies in ancient Near Eastern records ; v. 13.

Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records ; volume 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Middle East--History--To 1500.

Women.

History.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Boston : De Gruyter, [2016]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Foreword ; Acknowledgements ; Contents ; Women and Work in the Ancient Near East: An introduction ; Weaving, Potting, Churning: Women at work during the Uruk period. Evidence from the cylinder seals ; Representation of Women in Mesopotamian Lexical Lists

Women and Land in the Presargonic Lagaš Corpus The Role of Women in Work and Society in the Ebla Kingdom (Syria, 24th century BC) ; Women and Production in Sargonic Adab

The Sex-Based Division of Work versus Intersectionality: Some strategies for engendering the Ur III textile work force Women Work, Men are Professionals in the Old Assyrian Archives ; The Job of Sex: The social and economic role of prostitutes in ancient Mesopotamia

"She is not fit for womanhood": The Ideal Housewife According to Sumerian Literary Texts Economic Activities of naditum-Women of Šamaš Reflected in the Field Sale Contracts (MHET II/1-6) ; Cherchez la femme!. The Economic Role of Women in Old Babylonian Sippar

Notes:

Professional Women and Women at Work in Mesopotamia and Syria (3rd and early 2nd millennia BC): The (rare) information from visual images Women at Work and Women in Economy and Society during the Neo-Sumerian Period

Economic Activities of Women According to Mari Texts (18th century BC)

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 29, 2016).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Lion, Brigitte The Role of Women in Work and Society in the Ancient Near East

ISBN:

9781614519089

1614519080

Publisher Number:

99969435929

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