Women of Babylon
Subtitle: Gender and Representation in Mesopotamia
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 29, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780415218306
First sentence: What is women's history?
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."--BOOK JACKET.