Representations of sexual difference (whether visual or textual)
have become an area of much theoretical concern and investigation
in recent feminist scholarship. Yet although a wide range of
relevant evidence survives from the ancient Near East, it has been
exceptional for those studying women in the ancient world to stray
outside the traditional bounds of Greece and Rome.
Women of Babylon is a much-needed historical/art historical study
that investigates the concepts of femininity which prevailed in
Assyro-Babylonian society. 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 6500 BC - 1891 AD.
Professor Bahrani also investigates the ways in which women of the
ancient Near East have been perceived in classical scholarship up
to the nineteenth century.
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