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Freewomen, patriarchal authority and the accusation of prostitution / Stephanie Lynn Budin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Budin, Stephanie Lynn, author.
- Series:
- Interdisciplinary research in gender
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--History.
- Women.
- History.
- Women--Social conditions.
- Sex role--History.
- Sex role.
- Sex--History.
- Sex.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : routledge, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Stephanie Lynn Budin is an ancient historian who focuses on gender, religion, sexuality, and iconography in ancient Greece and the Near East. Her published works include Women in Antiquity: Real Women Across the Ancient World (Routledge 2016), Artemis (Routledge, 2015), Images of Woman and Child from the Bronze Age (2011), The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity (2008), and The Origin of Aphrodite (2003), as well as numerous articles on ancient religion, gender, and iconography. She has lectured throughout North America, Europe, the Near East, and Japan.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Definitions
- The problem of methodology
- Notes
- Chapter 2: Ḫarīmtu
- The KAR.KID
- KAR.KID = ḫarīmtu
- The ḫarīmtu
- The KAR.KID/Ḫarīmtu as Freewoman
- Chapter 3: Hetaira
- Chronology and sources
- Changes in culture
- Athenaios' Deipnosophistai
- Retrying Neaira
- What is a hetaira?
- Hetaira as Freewoman
- Chapter 4: Cortigiana: The (so-called) cortigiana onesta
- Sources
- Fiction
- Origins
- Terminology (or: whom are we actually studying here?)
- A negative curial reaction
- Prostitutes or not?
- Ambivalence
- Problems with being a courtesan
- Good marriage
- Good death
- Courtesan as Freewoman
- Chapter 5: Geisha
- Intersectionality
- History and evolution (to the coming of the Westerners)
- Geisha in the age of poverty (early twentieth century)
- Geesha girls
- Geisha today (right after we get back from dance class)
- Geisha as Freewomen
- Male theft of the female voice
- Lingering bias and discrimination
- Chapter 6: Devadāsī
- A brief history
- Ritual specialists
- Initiation
- Sexual status
- Devadāsī, prostitution, and the Freewoman archetype
- The not-wife
- Accusation and persecution
- Hypocrisy
- Freewomen no more
- A final word on research
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Budin, Stephanie Lynn. Freewomen, patriarchal authority and the accusation of prostitution
- ISBN:
- 9780429520105
- 0429520107
- 9780429243523
- 0429243529
- 9780429516672
- 0429516673
- 9780429513244
- 0429513240
- Publisher Number:
- 40030786079
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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