Finding Persephone: Women's Rituals in the Ancient MediterraneanMaryline G. Parca, Angeliki Tzanetou Indiana University Press, 2007 - 327 strán (strany) Drawing upon the latest research in gender studies, history of religion, feminism, ritual theory, performance, anthropology, archaeology, and art history, Finding Persephone investigates the ways in which the religious lives and ritual practices of women in Greek and Roman antiquity helped shape their social and civic identity. Barred from participating in many public arenas, women asserted their presence by performing rituals at festivals and presiding over rites associated with life passages and healing. The essays in this lively and timely volume reveal the central place of women in the religious and ritual practices of the societies of the ancient Mediterranean. Readers interested in religion, women's studies, and classical antiquity will find a unique exploration of the nature and character of women's autonomy within the religious sphere and a full account of women's agency in the public domain. |
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... action and are arguably found to be inadequate . While the women's activity is not unequivocally validated , it continues to demand a version of the polis in which it can find a place.12 In these instances just discussed , the women do ...
... action suggests that the entire state is in peril as a result of the women's ritual action ( rerumque reliquit habenas , 600 ) . The violence that the women's bacchic rituals generate not only threatens social stability but also ...
... action performed by a woman either alone or in conjunction with other women or even men , a broader category that would include , among other things , private ritual practices associated with procreation , fertility , and death . The ...
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CRITICAL | 3 |
Sources and Methodology | 17 |
THE SCANDAL OF WOMENS RITUAL | 29 |
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