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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... issue is a vexed one . Women's un- equal status in the community was encoded in the rites they performed on religious and other occasions . And the gender - coded complementarity be- tween men's and women's ritual tasks — men tended to ...
... issues . Neils concentrates on the visual evidence available for Athenian girls ' rituals , un- derrepresented in textual sources , and contrasts such elite roles with those reserved for those regarded as outsiders . Parca's examination ...
... issue of agency and identity through related concepts current in anthro- pological literature , such as " power , " " authority , " " influence , ” and “ media- tion , " which they use to frame questions regarding the character ...
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CRITICAL | 3 |
Sources and Methodology | 17 |
THE SCANDAL OF WOMENS RITUAL | 29 |
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