Svärd, Saana, 1977- editor. Garcia-Ventura, Agnès, editor. Rencontre assyriologique internationale (59th : 2013 : Ghent, Belgium) Rencontre assyriologique internationale (60th : 2014 : Warsaw, Poland) Gender, Methodology and the Ancient Near East (Workshop) (2014 : Helsingin yliopisto)
Notes:
Includes developed versions of papers presented at the Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale held in 2013 in Ghent, Belgium and in 2014 in Warsaw, Poland, and the workshop "Gender, Methodology and the ancient Near East" hosted by the Centre of Excellence in "Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions" at the University of Helsinki in October 2014.--Introduction. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Theoretical approaches, gender, and the ancient Near East: an introduction -- From la femme to multiple sex/gender -- Gender in the Tale of Aqhat -- Gender, personal adornment, and costly signaling -- When women get ill: gendered constructions of health and disease in cuneiform texts on healing -- Puppets on a string? On female agency in Old Babylonian economy -- In pursuit of Neo-Assyrian queens: an interdisciplinary methodology for researching ancient women and engendering ancient history -- Postfeminism and Assyriology: an (im)possible relationship? -- Gender experiments in Hellenistic Babylonian figurines -- Gender and methodology in the study of 2nd-millennium B. C. E. family archives -- Neo-Assyrian women, their visibility, and their representation in written and pictorial sources -- Factors complicating the reconstruction of women's lives in Iron Age Israel (1200-587 B. C. E.) -- Empire of the surveilling gaze: the masculinity of King Sennacherib -- Rethinking gender relationships in a sociopolitical context during the time of Zimri-Lim -- Building up a history of art of the ancient Near East: the case of Ebla and the third-millennium B. C. E. court ladies -- (Re)constructing the image of the Assinnu --After "profits": methodological and historiographic remarks on the study of women, textiles, and economy in the ancient Near East -- Marriage policy in Mari: A field of power between domination and resistance -- Gender studies and Assyriology: expectations of an outsider -- Analyzing constructs: a selection of perils, pitfalls, and progressions in interrogating ancient Near Eastern gender -- Gender and methodology in the ancient Near East: final thoughts.
Summary:
"A collection of essays on possible methodological and theoretical approaches to gender within the framework of ancient Near Eastern studies"--Provided by publisher.
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