Gender through time in the ancient Near East
By: edited by Diane Bolger.
Contributors: Bolger, Diane R.
Series: Gender and archaeology series
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9780759110922
Subjects: Gender identity -- Middle East; Sex role -- Middle East; Middle East -- Antiquities
Description: "Although the ancient Near East has been studied by anthropologists, archaeologists, philologists, and historians, no single work has explored issues of gender and social identity across the broad temporal and geographical range of Near Eastern civilizations. Gender Through Time in the Ancient Near East thus makes a unique contribution to gender studies. The volume's contributors - an international group of experts from Near Eastern, European, and American institutions - look at the archaeological and other evidence to find out how gender roles were constructed in these ancient worlds and what they meant to the men and women who assumed them."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.