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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... acquired their place in the community is crucial for assessing the definition of their social roles through rituals but does not confront the issue of " power " as directly as did , for example , studies on female goddesses in the ...
... acquired canonical status in discussions of women and re- ligion in antiquity , and navigating the sources requires a considerable amount of effort and ingenuity.27 Some essays here point out the difficulty of recov- ering women's ...
... acquired full legal independence only by fulfilling childbearing require- ments laid down by the law.28 The Roman state's granting of the ius libero- rum underscores that neither puberty nor a marriage ceremony marked the first - time ...
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CRITICAL | 3 |
Sources and Methodology | 17 |
THE SCANDAL OF WOMENS RITUAL | 29 |
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