Weaving, Potting, Churning: Women at work during the Uruk period

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Contents ix
5. Women and Work in the Ancient Near East: An introduction 1
6. Weaving, Potting, Churning: Women at work during the Uruk period 8
7. Representation of Women in Mesopotamian Lexical Lists 29
8. Women and Land in the Presargonic Lagaš Corpus 57
9. The Role of Women in Work and Society in the Ebla Kingdom (Syria, 24^th century BC) 71
10. Women and Production in Sargonic Adab 90
11. Professional Women and Women at Work in Mesopotamia and Syria (3^rd and early 2^nd millennia BC): The (rare) information from visual images 112
12. Women at Work and Women in Economy and Society during the Neo-Sumerian Period 149
13. The Sex-Based Division of Work versus Intersectionality: Some strategies for engendering the Ur III textile work force 174
14. Women Work, Men are Professionals in the Old Assyrian Archives 193
15. The Job of Sex: The social and economic role of prostitutes in ancient Mesopotamia 209
16. “She is not fit for womanhood”: The Ideal Housewife According to Sumerian Literary Texts 228
17. Economic Activities of nadītum-Women of Šamaš Reflected in the Field Sale Contracts (MHET II/1–6) 255
18. Cherchez la femme! 270
19. Economic Activities of Women According to Mari Texts (18^th century BC) 296
20. Women at Work in Mesopotamia: An attempt at a legal perspective 310
21. Sources for the Study of the Role of Women in the Hittite Administration 328
22. Work and Gender in Nuzi Society 354
23. Women in Economic Agreements: Emarite sale contracts (Syria, 13th century BC) 371
24. The kubuddā’u-Gift in the Emar Texts 388
25. Women in Elamite Royal Inscriptions: Some observations 416
26. Women and their Activities in Divinatory Texts 429
27. Studying Gender: A Case study of female administrators in Neo-Assyrian palaces 447
28. Historiography on Studies Dedicated to Women and Economy during the Neo-Babylonian Period 459
29. Invisible Workers: The role of women in textile production during the 1^st millennium BC 473
30. Economic Activities of Women in 1^st Millennium Babylonia 494
31. Beauty Experts: Female perfume-makers in the 1^st millennium BC 512
32. Women and Prebends in Seleucid Uruk 526
33. Women and the Economic History of the Ancient Greek World: Still a challenge for gender studies 543
34. Index of professions and activities 565