Images of woman and child from the Bronze Age : reconsidering fertility, maternity, and gender in the ancient world /
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Language: English
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Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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Call Number: GN778.25 .B83 2011
Table of Contents:
- •List of Illustrations •Acknowledgment •1. Introduction - Kourotrophic Iconography in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean: Origins and Meanings •Theorizing the Kourotrophos: Where Sex Meets Gender •Dealing with Figurines •A Few Words on the Term ôKourotrophosö •Inverse •2. Egypt •Egyptian Decorum •The Divine Wet Nurse •Parents and Nurses and Tutors •Potency Figurines •Ostraca and Wall Paintings: Die Wochenlaube •Plasks •Straddling the Gender Divide: Male Kourotrophoi •3. The Levant and Anatolia •The Levant •Anatolia •4. Mesopotamia and Iran •Mesopotamia •Iran •5. Cyprus •Maternity in the Cypriot Iconographic Record •The Bronze Age Kourotrophoi of Cyprus •6. The Aegean •Minoan Crete •Mycenaean Greece •7. Conclusions •Rare, Uncommon, Atypical •The Ambiguity of Status •The Matter of Gender •Summary •Bibliography •Index