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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... question this assessment . For example , Sue Blundell notes that " in Athens and in other Greek states , women were ... questions of agency , civic identity , performance , and gender definition ; and they treat these issues as pivotal ...
... question , present female rites as either the backdrop to scandal or even its cause . In some cases , we would know next to nothing about the ritual in question had it not been for a scandal . I real- ize that the word scandal may seem ...
... question ; these cases of male encroachment on female ritual space call into question the integrity of " women's ritual " as a category . My case study is an ambiguous one , however , for it focuses on the mostly women's cult of ...
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CRITICAL | 3 |
Sources and Methodology | 17 |
THE SCANDAL OF WOMENS RITUAL | 29 |
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