| Description |
1 online resource (225 pages) |
| Contents |
BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; 1 Women/sex/gender; 2 Envisioning difference: femininity and representation; 3 The metaphorics of the body: nudity, the goddess, and the Gaze; 4 That obscure object of desire; 5 Priestess and princess: patronage, portraiture, identity; 6 A woman's place: femininity in narrative art; 7 Ishtar: the embodiment of tropes; 8 Babylonian women in the Orientalist imagination; Notes; Annotated bibliography; Reference; Index |
| Summary |
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. 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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women -- Iraq -- History -- To 634
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Civilization, Ancient.
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Sex role -- History
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Civilization, Ancient
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Sex role
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Women
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Iraq
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203996096 |
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0203996097 |
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