Images of Woman and Child from the Bronze Age
Reconsidering Fertility, Maternity, and Gender in the Ancient World
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- Author: Stephanie Lynn Budin, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey
- Date Published: October 2014
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107660328
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This book is a study of the woman-and-child motif - known as the kourotrophos - as it appeared in the Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean. Stephanie Lynn Budin argues that, contrary to many current beliefs, the image was not a universal symbol of maternity or a depiction of a mother goddess. In most of the ancient world, kourotrophic iconography was relatively rare in comparison to other images of women and served a number of different symbolic functions, ranging from honoring the king of Egypt to adding strength to magical spells to depicting scenes of daily life. This work provides an in-depth examination of ancient kourotrophoi and engages with a variety of debates that they have spawned, including their role in the rise of patriarchy and what they say about ancient constructions of gender.
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'The book debunks several long-held and unsubstantiated beliefs in the literature, and reorients our thinking about images of women and children towards a context-specific approach.' Allison Thomason, Near Eastern Archaeology
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- Date Published: October 2014
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107660328
- length: 396 pages
- dimensions: 254 x 178 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.69kg
- contains: 46 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Egypt
3. The Levant and Anatolia
4. Mesopotamia and Iran
5. Cyprus
6. Aegean
7. Conclusions.
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