2006, ISBN: 9780691124094

Princeton/Oxford, University Press Group., 30.01, X., 104 p. Original cloth with dust jacket. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Jour… Mehr…

Princeton/Oxford, University Press Group., 30.01, X., 104 p. Original cloth with dust jacket. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - very good condition - In these four artfully crafted essays, Patrick J. Geary explores the way ancient and medieval authors wrote about women. Geary describes the often marginal role women played in origin legends from antiquity until the twelfth century. Not confining himself to one religious tradition or region, he probes the tensions between women in Biblical, Classical, and medieval myths (such as Eve, Mary, Amazons, princesses and countesses), and actual women in ancient and medieval societies. Using these legends as a lens through which to study patriarchal societies, Geary chooses specific moments and texts that best illustrate how the ancient authors (all of whom were male) confronted the place of women in their society. -- Unlike other books on the subject, Women at the Beginning attempts to understand not only the place of women in these legends, but also the ideologies of the men who wrote about them. The book concludes that the male authors of these stories were struggling themselves with ambivalence about women in their own worlds and that this struggle manifested itself in their writings. Content: Women and Origins in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages -- Writing Women Out: Amazons and Barbarians -- A Tale of Two Judiths -- Writing Women In: Sacred Genealogy and Gender -- Women at the End. ISBN 9780691124094Feminismus 2006, [PU: Princeton University Press]<

2006, ISBN: 0691124094

[EAN: 9780691124094], [SC: 68.66], [PU: Princeton.], 2006. Hardcover. Very Good., Books