Studying gender in the ancient Near East / edited by Saana Svard and Agnes Garcia-Ventura.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Svärd, Saana, 1977- editor.

Garcia-Ventura, Agnès, editor.

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Conference Name:

Rencontre assyriologique internationale (59th : 2013 : Ghent, Belgium)

Rencontre assyriologique internationale (60th : 2014 : Warsaw, Poland) http://viaf.org/viaf/7146094203400330928

Gender, Methodology and the Ancient Near East (Workshop) (2014 : Helsingin yliopisto) http://viaf.org/viaf/42152079120807111640

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Middle East--History--Congresses.

Women.

Sex role--Middle East--History--Congresses.

Sex role.

History.

Middle East.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 503 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : Eisenbrauns, [2018]

Summary:

"A collection of essays on possible methodological and theoretical approaches to gender within the framework of ancient Near Eastern studies"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Theoretical Approaches, Gender, and the Ancient Near East : An Introduction / Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Saana Svärd

From La Femme to Multiple Sex/Gender / Julia M. Asher-Greve

Gender in the Tale of Aqhat / Stephanie Lynn Budin

Gender, Personal Adornment, and Costly Signaling in the Iron Age Burials of Hasanlu, Iran / Megan Cifarelli

When Women Get Ill : Gendered Constructions of Health and Disease in Cuneiform Texts on Healing / M. Érica Couto-Ferreira

Puppets on a String? On Female Agency in Old Babylonian Economy / Katrien de Graef

In Pursuit of Neo-Assyrian Queens : An Interdisciplinary Methodology for Researching Ancient Women and Engendering Ancient History / Amy Rebecca Gansell

Postfeminism and Assyriology : An (Im)possible Relationship? / Agnès Garcia-Ventura

Gender Experiments in Hellenistic Babylonian Figurines / Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper Gender and Methodology in the Study of 2nd-Millennium B.C.E. Family Archives / Brigitte Lion

Neo-Assyrian Women, Their Visibility, and Their Representation in Written and Pictorial Sources / Natalie N. May

Factors Complicating the Reconstruction of Women's Lives in Iron Age Israel (1200-587 B.C.E.) / Beth Alpert Nakhai

Empire of the Surveilling Gaze : The Masculinity of King Sennacherib / Omar N'Shea

Rethinking Gender Relationships in a Sociopolitical Context during the Time of Zimri-Lim

María Rosa Oliver and Eleonora Ravenna

Building Up a History of Art of the Ancient Near East: The Case of Ebla and the Third-Millennium B.C.E. Court Ladies / Frances Pinnock

(Re)constructing the Image of the Assinnu / Saana Svärd and Martti Nissinen

After "Profits" : Methodological and Historiographic Remarks on the Study of Women, Textiles, and Economy in the Ancient Near East / Allison Karmel Thomason Marriage Policy in Mari : A Field of Power between Domination and Resistance / Luciana Urbano

Gender Studies and Assyriology : Expectations of an Outsider / Niek Veldhuis

Analyzing Constructs : A Selection of Perils, Pitfalls, and Progressions in Interrogating Ancient Near Eastern Gender / Ilona Zsolnay

Gender and Methodology in the Ancient Near East : Final Thoughts / Amélie Kuhrt.

Notes:

Includes developed versions of papers presented at the Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale held in 2013 in Ghent, Belgium and in 2014 in Warsaw, Poland, and the workshop "Gender, Methodology and the ancient Near East" hosted by the Centre of Excellence in "Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions" at the University of Helsinki in October 2014.--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

9781575067704

1575067706

OCLC:

1029063524

Publisher Number:

40028356662