Women of Babylon: Gender and Representation in Mesopotamia,9780415218306

Women of Babylon: Gender and Representation in Mesopotamia

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780415218306
ISBN10: 0415218306
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-05-29
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

Women of Babylonis a much-needed historical/art historical study that investigates the concepts of femininity which prevailed in Assyro-Babylonian society. Zainab Bahrani's detailed analysis of how the culture of ancient Mesopotamia defined sexuality and gender roles both in, and through, representation is enhanced by a rich selection of visual material extending from 6500 BC - 1891 AD.

Author Biography

Zainab Bahrani is Assistant Professor of Art History at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

Table of Contents

List of plates
viii
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction: women of Babylon -- gender and representation in Mesopotamia 1(6)
Women/sex/gender: women's history and the ancient Near East
7(21)
Envisioning difference: femininity and representation
28(12)
The metaphorics of the body: nudity, the goddess, and the Gaze
40(30)
That obscure object of desire: nudity, fetishism, and the female body
70(26)
Priestess and princess: patronage, portraiture, identity
96(25)
A woman's place: femininity in narrative art
121(20)
Ishtar: the embodiment of tropes
141(20)
Babylonian women in the Orientalist imagination
161(19)
Notes 180(4)
Annotated bibliography 184(5)
References 189(21)
Index 210

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