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Commonwealth Chair in American History
- Professor Iwan Morgan has been appointed to the Commonwealth Fund Chair in American History. More details to follow
Events
- 21 May: China in Latin America
- 2--22 June: Festus-Volterra Colloquium
- 3-5 Jul: Year 12 Summer School
- 27 Nov: Jimmy Burns Memorial Lecture
HIST7101: Women in Antiquity
Frans van Koppen
The focus of this half-unit course lies on women in Ancient Near Eastern societies. Concentrating on Mesopotamia prior to the Hellenistic age, with particular emphasis on the second millennium BC, we will occasionally draw on the situation in ancient Egypt for comparative purposes. The aim of the course is twofold: we will analyse the way in which social, economic and political structures affect the position and roles of women while making the theoretical issues involved in studying ancient women more transparent.
Weekly Topics:
1. Introduction
2. Women as wives, mothers and daughters: morals, marriage and reproduction
3. Women in peril: birth, infertility, divorce, poverty
4. Women in control: female heirs and heads of households, well-off widows, businesswomen
5. Women as commodity: slavery, sale into marriage, dependent workers
6. Influential women: queens, princesses, and the “harem”; wives of gods
7. Women and religion: cult participants and priestesses
8. Women in mythology: goddesses and demons
9. Wise women: literati, prophetesses, witches
10. Women in man’s mind
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