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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... shows how the writings of Paul and other early Christian writers consciously worked at limiting women's agency by wresting such power away from them and their Greek “ female gods " and allocating the control of reproductive rites to ...
... shows that women's roles in ritual occasions did not promote openness and as- similation but rather replicated and reinforced social hierarchies . " Rome , " she argues , " was divided into religious and social categories along the same ...
... shows a woman at a laver with a water bucket below , which makes her appear to be washing , 20 and a terracotta figurine of woman at a similar stand who is certainly either grinding grain or rolling out dough.2 21 The most clear - cut ...
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CRITICAL | 3 |
Sources and Methodology | 17 |
THE SCANDAL OF WOMENS RITUAL | 29 |
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