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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... example challenges the idea that ritual knowledge consid- ered the exclusive property of one gender is always successfully kept secret from the other gender . In this particular example , from the Sambia of New Guinea , where the men ...
... example concerns that which is lost when we have no first- hand accounts of women's religious experiences or their views about those experiences . In this case , Thomas Buckley ( 1988 , 187-209 ) discusses the testimony of some ...
... example where a grinder might be confused with women washing or rolling out cakes , one could point to two illustrations : a cup tondo by Douris that shows a woman at a laver with a water bucket below , which makes her appear to be ...
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CRITICAL | 3 |
Sources and Methodology | 17 |
THE SCANDAL OF WOMENS RITUAL | 29 |
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