Women in Ancient Societies : An illusion of the night

by: Archer, L.J. Fischler, S. Wyke, M.

 Women in ancient societies : an illusion of the night
Authors:Léonie J. Archer, Susan Fischler, Maria Wyke

A collection of essays on the latest research on women's lives and their representations in various ancient societies, Women in Ancient Societies provides a forum for the growth of women's studies in the classics.

Contributors to the volume include social and legal historians, archaeologists, philosophers, theologians and literary critics, all of whom are concerned with textual issues: the woman as text; the interrelationship of text and society; society as text; the text as authority. Working form a variety of backgrounds--social and legal history, archaeology, art history, philosophy, literary criticism, classics and religious studies--the contributors address an equally diverse range of topics. Averil Cameron examines the relationship between early Christianity and the disourse of female desire. Richard Hawley discusses the problem of women philosophers in ancient Greece while Marie Wyke dissects the rhetoric of adornment in the Roman world.

Contents:
List of Plates - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; L.Archer, S.Fischler & M.Wyke - Gender Bias in Archaeology; L.Nixon - Women in Ancient Egyptian Wisdom Literature; A.Depla - Notions of Community and the Exclusion of the Female in Jewish History and Historiography; L.Archer - The Problem of Women Philosophers in Ancient Greece; R.Hawley - An Ancient Theory of gender: Plato and the Pythagorean Table; S.Lovibond - Producing Woman: Hippocratic Gynaecology; H.King - Social Stereotypes and Historical Analysis: The Case of the Imperial Women at Rome; S.Fischler - Woman in the Mirror: The Rhetoric of Adornment in the Roman World; M.Wyke - Early Christianity and the Discourse of Desire; A.Cameron - Reading Between the Lines: Sarah and the Sacrifice of Isaac (Genesis, Chapter 22); S.Brock - Public and Private Forms of Religious Commitment among Byzantine Women; J.Herrin - Women in Anglo-Saxon Poetry; F.Gameson - Recycling Ancient Material: An Orthodox View of Hindu Women; J.Leslie - The Witch and the Wife: A Comparative Study of Theocritus Idyll 2, Simonides Idyll 15 and Fatal Attraction; L.Gibbs-Wichrowska - General Bibliography - Bibliography of Works Cited - Index
 

xx, 308 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
 

Subjects:
Actes de congrès
Conference papers and proceedings
Femmes Histoire Jusqu'à 500 Congrès
History
To 500
Women
Women Egypt History To 640 A.D
Women Greece
Women History To 500
Women History To 500 Congresses
Women Rome
Women in Christianity History Early church, ca. 30-600
Women in Judaism

Women in Ancient Societies : An illusion of the night

by: Archer, L.J. Fischler, S. Wyke, M.

• ISBN-13: 9780415908825 / 978-0-415-90882-5
• ISBN-03: 0415908825 / 0-415-90882-5
• Routledge, London, 1994