Dewey Edition23
Reviews"The diverse backgrounds of the contributors allow for a range of fruitful discussions on gender methodologies and provide important reflections on the future of the field. This volume will have significant impact for those researching and challenging assumptions about gender in the ANE." --Karina Atudosie Society for Old Testament Study Booklist (JSOT), "This volume succeeds in the editors' broad goal of moving gender studies in the ANE forward. The editors deserve praise for organizing the workshops that led to this volume and publishing a collection of strong papers written by such a diverse group of scholars. One can only hope that the tools offered here will be adopted broadly and not only by researchers--most of them women--with a specific interest in gender issues." --Jennie Ebeling Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies, "The diverse backgrounds of the contributors allow for a range of fruitful discussions on gender methodologies and provide important reflections on the future of the field. This volume will have significant impact for those researching and challenging assumptions about gender in the ANE." --Karina Atudosie, Society for Old Testament Study Booklist (JSOT), "This volume succeeds in the editors' broad goal of moving gender studies in the ANE forward. The editors deserve praise for organizing the workshops that led to this volume and publishing a collection of strong papers written by such a diverse group of scholars. One can only hope that the tools offered here will be adopted broadly and not only by researchers-most of them women-with a specific interest in gender issues." -Jennie Ebeling, Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies, "This volume succeeds in the editors' broad goal of moving gender studies in the ANE forward. The editors deserve praise for organizing the workshops that led to this volume and publishing a collection of strong papers written by such a diverse group of scholars. One can only hope that the tools offered here will be adopted broadly and not only by researchers--most of them women--with a specific interest in gender issues." --Jennie Ebeling, Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies
Dewey Decimal305.40956
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Abbreviations Theoretical Approaches, Gender, and the Ancient Near East: An Introduction Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Saana Svard From La Femme to Multiple Sex/Gender Julia M. Asher-Greve Gender in the Tale of Aqhat Stephanie Lynn Budin Gender, Personal Adornment, and Costly Signaling in the Iron Age Burials of Hasanlu, Iran Megan Cifarelli When Women Get Ill: Gendered Constructions of Health and Disease in Cuneiform Texts on Healing M. Erica Couto-Ferreira Puppets on a String? On Female Agency in Old Babylonian Economy Katrien de Graef In Pursuit of Neo-Assyrian Queens: An Interdisciplinary Methodology for Researching Ancient Women and Engendering Ancient History Amy Rebecca Gansell Postfeminism and Assyriology: An (Im)possible Relationship? Agnes Garcia-Ventura Gender Experiments in Hellenistic Babylonian Figurines Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper Gender and Methodology in the Study of 2nd-Millennium B.C.E. Family Archives Brigitte Lion Neo-Assyrian Women, Their Visibility, and Their Representation in Written and Pictorial Sources Natalie N. May Factors Complicating the Reconstruction of Women's Lives in Iron Age Israel (1200-587 B.C.E.) Beth Alpert Nakhai Empire of the Surveilling Gaze: The Masculinity of King Sennacherib Omar N'Shea Rethinking Gender Relationships in a Sociopolitical Context during the Time of Zimri-Lim Maria Rosa Oliver and Eleonora Ravenna Building Up a History of Art of the Ancient Near East: The Case of Ebla and the Third-Millennium b.c.e. Court Ladies Frances Pinnock (Re)constructing the Image of the Assinnu Saana Svard and Martti Nissinen After "Profits": Methodological and Historiographic Remarks on the Study of Women, Textiles, and Economy in the Ancient Near East Allison Karmel Thomason Marriage Policy in Mari: A Field of Power between Domination and Resistance Luciana Urbano Gender Studies and Assyriology: Expectations of an Outsider Niek Veldhuis Analyzing Constructs: A Selection of Perils, Pitfalls, and Progressions in Interrogating Ancient Near Eastern Gender Ilona Zsolnay Gender and Methodology in the Ancient Near East: Final Thoughts Amelie Kuhrt Contributors Index of Authors
SynopsisThis volume explores how the interpretation of material from the ancient Near East is enriched through the application of diverse methodological and theoretical approaches to studying gender. The contributors to this collection include both established and up-and-coming scholars whose work brings gender studies theories--from Butler's theory of gender as a performance to more recent theories that consider gender as a spectrum--to bear on varied materials and contexts. Their essays increase the visibility of women in ancient history, untangle constructions of masculinity and femininity in diverse contexts, and grapple with big-picture questions, such as the suitability of applying third-wave or postfeminist theories to the ancient Near East. Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East points to a need for--and provides a model of--a more productive agenda for gender studies in furthering our understanding of ancient Near Eastern societies. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Julia M. Asher-Greve, Stephanie Lynn Budin, Megan Cifarelli, M. rica Couto-Ferreira, Amy Rebecca Gansell, Katrien De Graef, Am lie Kuhrt, Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper, Brigitte Lion, Natalie N. May, Beth Alpert Nakhai, Martti Nissinen, Omar N'Shea, Mar a Rosa Oliver, Frances Pinnock, Eleonora Ravenna, Allison Karmel Thomason, Luciana Urbano, Niek Veldhuis, and Ilona Zsolnay., This volume explores how the interpretation of material from the ancient Near East is enriched through the application of diverse methodological and theoretical approaches to studying gender. The contributors to this collection include both established and up-and-coming scholars whose work brings gender studies theories--from Butler's theory of gender as a performance to more recent theories that consider gender as a spectrum--to bear on varied materials and contexts. Their essays increase the visibility of women in ancient history, untangle constructions of masculinity and femininity in diverse contexts, and grapple with big-picture questions, such as the suitability of applying third-wave or postfeminist theories to the ancient Near East. Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East points to a need for--and provides a model of--a more productive agenda for gender studies in furthering our understanding of ancient Near Eastern societies. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Julia M. Asher-Greve, Stephanie Lynn Budin, Megan Cifarelli, M. Érica Couto-Ferreira, Amy Rebecca Gansell, Katrien De Graef, Amélie Kuhrt, Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper, Brigitte Lion, Natalie N. May, Beth Alpert Nakhai, Martti Nissinen, Omar N'Shea, María Rosa Oliver, Frances Pinnock, Eleonora Ravenna, Allison Karmel Thomason, Luciana Urbano, Niek Veldhuis, and Ilona Zsolnay., A collection of essays on possible methodological and theoretical approaches to gender within the framework of ancient Near Eastern studies.
LC Classification NumberHQ1137.M628S78 2018