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- catalog abstract ""Women's history and histories of the body and sexuality in antiquity can be written for much earlier civilisations than those of ancient Greece and Rome. Women of Babylon investigates the representation of women and the concepts of femininity and sex that prevailed in ancient Mesopotamia, providing the first book-length study of its kind on an ancient Near Eastern culture." "The work provides a useful overview of feminist theory as it has developed over the past three decades in the areas of art history and archaeology and also offers a clear exposition of current feminist debates. The relationship of postmodernism, poststructuralism, post-colonialism and feminist theory is analysed, as well as the question of their relevance to the study of antiquity. These discussions should be useful for students of antiquity in general. The author also outlines a framework for an entirely new methodology in the study of women and gender in Near Eastern antiquity."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12602123.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""Women's history and histories of the body and sexuality in antiquity can be written for much earlier civilisations than those of ancient Greece and Rome. Women of Babylon investigates the representation of women and the concepts of femininity and sex that prevailed in ancient Mesopotamia, providing the first book-length study of its kind on an ancient Near Eastern culture." "The work provides a useful overview of feminist theory as it has developed over the past three decades in the areas of art history and archaeology and also offers a clear exposition of current feminist debates. The relationship of postmodernism, poststructuralism, post-colonialism and feminist theory is analysed, as well as the question of their relevance to the study of antiquity. These discussions should be useful for students of antiquity in general. The author also outlines a framework for an entirely new methodology in the study of women and gender in Near Eastern antiquity."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-209) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: women of Babylon -- gender and representation in Mesopotamia -- Women/sex/ gender: women's history and the ancient Near East -- Envisioning difference: femininity and representation -- The metaphorics of the body: nudity, the goddess, and the Gaze -- That obscure object of desire: nudity, fetishism, and the female body -- Priestess and princess: patronage, portraiture, identity -- A woman's place: femininity in narrative art -- Ishtar: the embodiment of tropes -- Babylonian women in the Orientalist imagination.".
- catalog extent "xii, 212 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0415218306".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Routledge,".
- catalog spatial "Iraq".
- catalog subject "305.4/0935 21".
- catalog subject "Civilization, Ancient.".
- catalog subject "HQ1137.I72 B34 2001".
- catalog subject "Sex role History.".
- catalog subject "Women Iraq History To 634.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: women of Babylon -- gender and representation in Mesopotamia -- Women/sex/ gender: women's history and the ancient Near East -- Envisioning difference: femininity and representation -- The metaphorics of the body: nudity, the goddess, and the Gaze -- That obscure object of desire: nudity, fetishism, and the female body -- Priestess and princess: patronage, portraiture, identity -- A woman's place: femininity in narrative art -- Ishtar: the embodiment of tropes -- Babylonian women in the Orientalist imagination.".
- catalog title "Women of Babylon : gender and representation in Mesopotamia / Zainab Bahrani.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".