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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... agency in the sphere of religion and society.17 The question of women's agency within the religious and ritual sphere - that is , the de- gree to which women can be said to be autonomous - is explored in soci- eties that assigned them a ...
... agency address the meanings that the term acquires under its various guises in the context of women's ritual practices . Feminist scholars and anthropologists have not ascribed a fixed meaning to the notion of female agency either , for ...
... agency . Thus Margaret Miles , in her introduction to Immaculate and Powerful , provides a definitive answer to the question of whether “ religion can provide women with a critical per- spective on and alternatives to the conditioning ...
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CRITICAL | 3 |
Sources and Methodology | 17 |
THE SCANDAL OF WOMENS RITUAL | 29 |
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