5 edition of Ancient Worlds: Gender Representation found in the catalog.
Ancient Worlds: Gender Representation
National Collegiate Honors Society
Published
August 1994
by Hillwood Art Museum
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Written in English
| The Physical Object | |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardcover |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL8388825M |
| ISBN 10 | 0933699336 |
| ISBN 10 | 9780933699335 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 30318407 |
The worship of the phallus has existed since the Stone Age, and was particularly prevalent during the Neolithic period and the Bronze Age.. Phallic architecture became prominent in ancient Egypt and Greece, where genitalia and human sexuality received a high degree of attention. The ancient Greeks honored the phallus and celebrated phallic festivals. The Greco-Roman deity Priapus was worshiped. Book Description. Looking at sex and sexuality from a variety of historical, sociological and theoretical perspectives, as represented in a variety of media, Sex in Antiquity represents a vibrant picture of the discipline of ancient gender and sexuality studies, showcasing the work of leading international scholars as well as that of emerging talents and new voices.
Last September, Italian scientists revealed that a famous pair of ancient skeletons, known as the “Lovers of Modena” after being found in Italy buried hand-in-hand, were actually two men. In the dim distant past, when my folks had no television and spoglet me was neck deep in books at school, the British government introduced Section 28 that essentially banned all representation of.
Trauma Cinema focuses on a new breed of documentary films and videos that adopt catastrophe as their subject matter and trauma as their aesthetic. Incorporating oral testimony, home-movie footage, and documentary reenactment, these documentaries express the havoc trauma wreaks on history and memory. Janet Walker uses incest and the Holocaust as a double thematic focus and fiction films as a. A number of books focus on specific aspects of mothering. For example, Patricia Watson's Ancient Stepmothers: Myth, Misogyny, and Reality () concentrates on the figure of the stepmother in myth and the historical reality of fifth-century Athens and Republican and early Imperial Rome. Because Watson's book addresses aspects of mothering and.
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Ancient Worlds: Gender Representation: Northeast Region National Collegiate Honor Society Symposium, February Author: National Collegiate Honors Society. John Williams & Shaun Hill, Food in the Ancient World. In Food in the Ancient World, a respected classicist and a practicing world-class chef explore a millennium of eating and drinking.
The book focuses on ancient Greece and Rome, but also looks at Author: Erika Harlitz-Kern. Gender identity and expression in ancient cultures are questioned in these 15 essays in light of our new understandings of sex and gender.
Using contemporary theory and methodologies this book opens up a new history of gender diversity from the ancient world to our own, encouraging us to reconsider those very understandings of sex and gender.
Women of Babylon book. Read 3 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Representations of sexual difference (whether visual or textual) ha /5.
Ancient Egypt. Ancient Egypt had third gender categories, including for eunuchs. In the Tale of Two Brothers (from years ago), Bata removes his penis and tells his wife "I am a woman just like you"; one modern scholar called him temporarily (before his body is restored) "transgendered".
Mut, Sekhmet and other goddesses are sometimes represented androgynously, with erect penises, and Anat. Diotima serves as an interdisciplinary resource for anyone interested in patterns of gender around the ancient Mediterranean and as a forum for collaboration among instructors who teach courses about women and gender in the ancient world.
This site includes course materials, the beginnings of a systematic and searchable bibliography, and links to many on-line resources, including articles.
CUP () h/b pp £75 (ISBN ) This book published posthumously after B.’s death inaims to explore a selection of works of ancient sculpture through the lens of contemporary theory from areas such as gender studies, art history, sociology and psychology amongst others.
A book of this scope could easily be overwhelmed with [ ]. Gender roles, for the most part, were fairly similar in the ancient civilizations that made up the Mesoamerica location. Each civilization had its own beliefs and ideas, but in general, gender. Same sex relationships in ancient Greece gave a clear representation of the unfairness in the social column of the Greek world.
The fact that women would forever have to hide their identity as a lesbian and lose lovers they once had due to compulsory heterosexuality does show man’s claim over women; even with cunningness.
THE EDITORS. Sharon L. James is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
She is the author of Learned Girls and Male Persuasion: Gender and Reading in Roman Love Elegy () and the forthcoming Women in Greek and Roman New Comedy.
Sheila Dillon is Associate Professor in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University with. About this book. gender and sexuality in the ancient world, tracing the debates from the late s to the late s.
She has also published articles on Athenian tragedy, the classical tradition and ancient gender studies. Her current research focuses on the representation of courtesans in second sophistic literature. The question of women's roles in ancient synagogues, rather than an end in itself, opens a wider door to explorations of gender and representation in the ancient world.
Date of publication August Chapter 1: The Conventional Role Of Women In Ancient Greece. The book written by Elaine Fantham, Helene Foley, Natalie Kampen, Sarah Pomeroy, and H.
Shapiro, Women in the Classical World, provides a useful background and extensive review of the various roles of women in the ancient Greek world.
The text is a collective piece of. Laura McClure’s diverse research interests focus on Athenian drama, the study of women in the ancient world, and classical reception. Her publications include books on the representation of women in Athenian drama and the courtesan in the Greek literary tradition: Spoken Like a Woman: Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama (Princeton, ) and Courtesans at Table: Gender and Greek Literary.
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If we look a little further into the past, beyond the classical Greek world, we arrive in ancient Mesopotamia, where the goddess Inanna (Ishtar) is fully at home in paradox and genderfuckery.
She has helpers called the Galla, and other third-gendered or gender-neutral beings, at her call. This book explores the role of gender in structuring relations of exchange in ancient Greece, and specifically the representation of women as both objects and agents of exchange. The anthropological concept of reciprocity is central to this investigation of gender and exchange in ancient Greek thought.
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 BC - s: 3.
Richard Leppert boldly examines the social meanings of music as these have been shaped not only by hearing but also by seeing music in performance. His purview is the northern European bourgeoisie, principally in England and the Low Countries, from to And his particular interest is the relation of music to the human body.
The texts and visual arts of ancient Egypt reveal a persistent and sophisticated engagement with problems of language, the body, and multiplicity. This innovative book shows how these issues were represented in ancient Egypt and how Egyptian approaches to them continue to influence the way we think about them today.
The story of Osiris is one of the central cultural myths of ancient Egypt, a. Sexuality and gender in the ancient world is an area of research that has grown quickly with often sudden shifts in focus and theoretical standpoints. This volume contextualises these shifts while putting in place new ideas and avenues of exploration that Reviews: 1.
LibGuides: Classical Studies: Women in the Classical World.The Norwegian Institute in Athens, in collaboration with the Centre for Gender Research at the University of Oslo, would like to announce the call for papers for the interdisciplinary conference “Hierarchy and Equality - Representations of Sex/Gender in the Ancient World.” We invite scholars with a material and/or theoretical interest in sex/gender, or in social structures based on gender.
