Women in ancient societies : an illusion of the night / edited by L eonie J. Archer, Susan Fischler and Maria Wyke
1994, 1st edition. Basingstoke : Macmillan. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #384886
ISBN: 0333523962
Physical description; xx, 308 pp., 4 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-301) and index. Contents; Gender bias in archaeology / Lucia Nixon -- Women in ancient Egyptian wisdom literature / Annette Depla -- Notions of community and the exclusion of the female in Jewish history and historiography / Léonie J. Archer -- Problem of women philosophers in ancient Greece / Richard Hawley -- Ancient theory of gender : Plato and the Pythagorean table / Sabina Lovibond -- Producing woman : Hippocratic gynaecology / Helen King -- Social stereotypes and historical analysis : the case of the Imperial women at Rome / Susan Fischler -- Woman in the mirror : the rhetoric of adornment in the Roman world / Maria Wyke -- Early Christianity and the discourse of female desire / Averil Cameron -- Reading between the lines : Sarah and the sacrifice of Isaac (Genesis, chapter 22) / Sebastian Brock -- Public and private forms of religious commitment among Byzantine women / Judith Herrin -- Women in Anglo-Saxon poetry / Fiona Gameson -- Recycling ancient material : an orthodox view of Hindu women / Julia Leslie -- The witch and the wife : a comparative study of Theocritus, Idyll 2, Simonides, Idyll 15, and Fatal Attraction / Laura Gibbs-Wichrowska. Subjects; Women Cross-cultural studies. Congresses. Women Greece History. Women Rome History. Society Role of Women.
Price: €60.00