1st Edition
Women of Babylon Gender and Representation in Mesopotamia
By Zainab Bahrani
Copyright 2001
224 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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;
Biography
Bahrani, Zainab
'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
