Women of Babylon - Gender and Representation in Mesopotamia

Zusatztext 'Women of Babylon is a sophisticated! stimulating and provocative study ... A brief review cannot do justice to the depth of Bahrani's analyses and the richness of her insights ... This is a landmark study.' - Journal of the American Oriental Society Informationen zum Autor Bahrani, Zainab Klappentext Representations of sexual difference (whether visual or textual) have become an area of much theoretical concern and investigation in recent feminist scholarship. Yet although a wide range of relevant evidence survives from the ancient Near East, it has been exceptional for those studying women in the ancient world to stray outside the traditional bounds of Greece and Rome.Women of Babylon is a much-needed historical/art historical study that investigates the concepts of femininity which prevailed in Assyro-Babylonian society. Zainab Bahrani's detailed analysis of how the culture of ancient Mesopotamia defined sexuality and gender roles both in, and through, representation is enhanced by a rich selection of visual material extending from 6500 BC - 1891 AD. Professor Bahrani also investigates the ways in which women of the ancient Near East have been perceived in classical scholarship up to the nineteenth century. Zusammenfassung This is a much needed historical study into the concept of feminity in Assyro-Babylonian society. The author analyses how the ancient culture of Mesopotamia defined gender and sexuality through visual representation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Chapter 1 Women/Sex/Gender; Chapter 2 Envisioning Difference; Chapter 3 The Metaphorics of the Body; Chapter 4 That Obscure Object of Desire; Chapter 5 Priestess and Princess; Chapter 6 A Woman’s Place; Chapter 7 Ishtar; Chapter 8 Babylonian Women in the Orientalist Imagination;

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Zainab Bahrani, Bahrani Zainab
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.01.2011
• EAN: 9780415619387
• ISBN: 978-0-415-61938-7
• Seiten: 224
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Altertum; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, HISTORY / Middle East / General, HISTORY / Ancient / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Women, Social and cultural anthropology, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Gender studies: women and girls