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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... aischrologia ( " obscenity " ) . As Allaire Brumfield has noted , the double meaning of aporrheta — that which should not be spoken , because vulgar , and that which should not be spoken of , because of its sacred nature— work well ...
... aischrologia , which in ritual context refers to specially licensed joking and mocking ( presumably on bodily and especially sexual matters ) , but skommata ( noun form of skoptein ) is a common description of aischrologia . 20 ...
... Aischrologia no doubt included jokes about men's sexuality , whether positively or negatively depicted , but women could assess it as they wished , while in their ritual ac- tions they bypassed it as superfluous . Contact with death is ...
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CRITICAL | 3 |
Sources and Methodology | 17 |
THE SCANDAL OF WOMENS RITUAL | 29 |
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