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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 Easern, 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.
Diane Bolger is a research fellow at the University of Edinburgh.
Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 1 Ambiguous Genders? Alternative Interpretations: A Discussion of Case Studies from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic - Halaf PeriodsChapter 2 Feasting and Dancing: Gendered Representation and Pottery in Later Mesopotamian PrehistoryChapter 2 IntroductionChapter 3 Evaluating Patterns of Gender through Mesopotamian and Iranian Figurines: A Reassessment of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic IndustriesChapter 6 Images of Men, Gender Regimes, and Social Stratification in the Late Uruk PeriodChapter 6 Complex Identities: Gender, Age and Status in the Early Bronze Age of the Middle Euphrates ValleyChapter 8 The Female Kings of UrChapter 9 Gender Relations: Kinship, Property and Labor in Southern MesopotamiaChapter 10 From Life Course to longue durée: Headshaping as Gendered Capital?Chapter 11 Gender in the Sanctuary: Votive Offerings and Deity at Ancient MarionChapter 12 Gendered Fields in Ancient Near Eastern Studies: Past, Present, Future
Gender studies is claiming its rightful place in the field of Near Eastern archaeology. This important and timely book will no doubt stimulate critical thinking on a subject of wide significance.
