Women of Babylon: Gender and Representation in Mesopotamia - Softcover

Bahrani, Zainab

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415619386 ISBN 13: 9780415619387

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"Though not a textbook per se, this work will be of immense help for the scholar who has heretofore simply catalogued information about gender, as it engages theoretical approaches."
-Religious Studies Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0415619386
• ISBN 13: 9780415619387
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228