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The role of women in work and society in the ancient Near East /

Economic history is well documented in Assyriology thanks to the good preservation of numerous private and official archives; however, the contribution of women has seldom been addressed. This volume examines the many aspects of women as economic agents, inside and outside of the family structure ov...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lion, Brigitte (Editor ), Michel, Cécile (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston ; Berlin : De Gruyter, 2016.
Colección:Studies in ancient Near Eastern records ; v. 13.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Women and work in the ancient Near East : an introduction / Brigitte Lion and Cécile Michel
  • Weaving, potting, churning : women at work during the Uruk Period : evidence from the cylinder seals / Catherine Breniquet
  • Representation of women in Mesopotamian lexical lists / Camille Lecompte
  • Women and land in the Presargonic Laga corpus / Fumi Karahashi
  • The role of women in work and society in the Ebla Kingdom (Syria, 24th century BC) / Maria Giovanna Biga
  • Women and production in Sargonic Adab / Massimo Maiocchi
  • Professional women and women at work in Mesopotamia and Syria (3rd and early 2nd millennia BC) : the (rare) information from visual images / Adelheid Otto
  • Women at work and women in economy and society during the Neo-Sumerian Period / Bertrand Lafont
  • The sex-based division of work versus intersectionality : some strategies for engendering the Ur III textile work force / Agnès Garcia-Ventura
  • Women work, men are professionals in the Old Assyrian archives / Cécile Michel
  • The job of sex : the social and economic role of prostitutes in ancient Mesopotamia / Jerrold S. Cooper
  • "She is not fit for womanhood" : the ideal housewife according to Sumerian literary texts / Jana Matuszak
  • Economic activities of Naditum-women of "ama" reflected in the field sale contracts (Mhet II/1-6) / Ichiro Nakata
  • Cherchez la femme! : the economic role of women in Old Babylonian Sippar / Katrien de Graef
  • Economic activities of women according to Mari texts (18th century BC) / Nele Ziegler
  • Women at work in Mesopotamia : an attempt at a legal perspective / Sophie Démare-Lafont
  • Sources for the study of the role of women in the Hittite administration / Matteo Vigo
  • Work and gender in Nuzi society / Brigitte Lion
  • Women in economic agreements : Emarite sale contracts (Syria, 13th century BC) / Josué J. Justel
  • The kubuddau-gift in the Emar texts / Masamichi Yamada
  • Women in Elamite royal inscriptions : some observations / Eiko Matsushima
  • Women and their activities in divinatory texts / Virginie Muller
  • Studying gender : a case study of female administrators in Neo-Assyrian palaces / Saana Svärd
  • Historiography on studies dedicated to women and economy during the Neo-Babylonian period / Francis Joannès
  • Invisible workers : the role of women in textile production during the 1st millennium BC / Louise Quillien
  • Economic activities of women in 1st millennium Babylonia / Yoko Watai
  • Beauty experts : female perfume-makers in the 1st millennium BC / Laura Cousin
  • Women and prebends in Seleucid Uruk / Julien Monerie
  • Women and the economic history of the ancient Greek world : still a challenge for gender studies / Violaine Sebillotte Cuchet.