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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... male bias , " namely , descriptions by male writers based largely on male informants.33 Winkler ( 1990 , 206 ) acknowl- edges this problem in his piece on the Adonia , remarking that male au- thors ' " sense of shock at ritual obscenity ...
... male writers ' protestations of igno- rance were similarly pro forma ? 40 And if so , does that dilute the arguments I have made for the significance of male ignorance ? Or does it suggest that ignorance of women's religious affairs ...
... male . This is not surprising , of course , in the case of the medical tradition , because we know that women were not regularly trained as doctors until the late Ro- man period . But as it turns out , exorcism also seems to have been a ...
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CRITICAL | 3 |
Sources and Methodology | 17 |
THE SCANDAL OF WOMENS RITUAL | 29 |
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