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Women in ancient societies : an illusion of the night / edited by Léonie J. Archer, Susan Fischler, and Maria Wyke.

Contributor(s): Archer, Léonie J | Fischler, Susan | Wyke, Maria
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Routledge, ©1994Description: xx, 308 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415908817; 9780415908818; 0415908825; 9780415908825Subject(s): Women -- History -- To 500 -- CongressesDDC classification: 305.4/093 LOC classification: HQ1127 | .W63 1994Bibliography, Etc. Note: 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.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 West HQ1127 .W63 1994 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903551600

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-301) and index.

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.

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