Textiles and Gender in Antiquity From the Orient to the Mediterranean Harlow, Mary. creator Michel, Cécile. Quillien, Louise. text Electronic books. History enk London Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2020 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (345 p.) "This volume looks at how the issues of textiles and gender intertwine across three millennia in antiquity and examines continuities and differences across time and space - with surprising resonances for the modern world. The interplay of gender, identity, textile production and use is notable on many levels, from the question of who was involved in the transformation of raw materials into fabric at one end, to the wearing of garments and the construction of identity at the other. Textile production has often been considered to follow a linear trajectory from a domestic (female) activity to a more 'commercial' or 'industrial' (male-centred) mode of production. In reality, many modes of production co-existed and the making of textiles is not so easily grafted onto the labour of one sex or the other. Similarly, textiles once transformed into garments are often of 'unisex' shape but worn to express the gender of the wearer. As shown by the detailed textual source material and the rich illustrations in this volume, dress and gender are intimately linked in the visual and written records of antiquity. The contributors show how it is common practice in both art and literature not only to use particular garments to characterize one sex or the other, but also to undermine characterizations by suggesting that they display features usually associated with the opposite gender"-- Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- PLATES -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER 1 TEXTILES AND GENDER IN ANTIQUITY: AN INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 Research on ancient textiles -- 1.2 Gendered textile terminologies -- 1.3 Gendered textile activities -- 1.4 Gendered wardrobes -- 1.5 Concluding thoughts -- Note -- References -- PART 1 GENDERED TEXTILE TERMINOLOGIES -- CHAPTER 2 TEXTILES AND GENDER DURING THE MIDDLE BABYLONIAN PERIOD (c. 1500-1000 bce): TEXTS FROM SYRIA AND BABYLONIA 2.1 Garments of women in cultic contexts: the case of the high priestess of Baal -- 2.2 Garments in dowries -- 2.3 A Middle Babylonian list of clothes for the wedding ceremony -- 2.4 Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 3 THE GODDESS NANAJA'S NEW CLOTHES -- 3.1 A letter of the king's son -- 3.2 What is the garment called kusıˉtu (Sumerian: túg-bar-dul 5)? -- 3.3 The causes of displacement -- 3.4 Modes of travel: the 'boat of the kusıˉtu' (eleppu ša kusıˉti) -- 3.5 Conclusion and hypothesis -- Appendix: Transliteration of YOS 6, 71/72 -- Notes -- References CHAPTER 4 TEXTILES AND GENDER AT UGARIT -- 4.1 Gender and textile production -- 4.2 Women and clothing -- 4.3 Offerings in the ritual texts -- 4.4 Women warriors -- 4.5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Abbreviation -- CHAPTER 5 TOWARDS ENGENDERING TEXTILE PRODUCTION IN MIDDLE BRONZE AGE CRETE -- 5.1 Middle Bronze Age Crete and the evidence for engendering textile production -- 5.2 Textile production-related iconography of MBA seals from Crete -- 5.3 Human figures in the imagery of the MBA glyptic -- towards recognizing their gender and potential professions 5.4 Quartier Mu, Malia, as a case study of a site-specific context for textile production and sealing practices -- 5.5 Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- PART 2 GENDERED TEXTILE ACTIVITIES -- CHAPTER 6 A MAN'S BUSINESS? WASHING THE CLOTHES IN ANCIENT EGYPT (SECOND AND FIRST MILLENNIA bce) -- 6.1 Iconographic documents -- 6.2 Second millennium literary sources -- 6.3 Documentary texts from Ramesside to Hellenistic period -- 6.4 Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 7 WOMEN, MEN, GIRLS AND BOYS: GENDERED TEXTILE WORK AT LATE BRONZE AGE KNOSSOS 7.1 Textile manufacture: workers and textiles -- 7.2 Concluding remarks -- 7.3 Excursus on the Linear B term o-nu-ke-ja (pl. f. onukheiai)3 -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 8 FEMALE DUES AND THE PRODUCTION OF TEXTILES IN ANCIENT GREECE -- 8.1 Agamemnon's offer -- 8.2 Collecting dues in Homeric epic: Dotinai and Themistes -- 8.3 Marriage and the practice of collecting dues -- 8.4 The practice of collecting dues in Archaic Greece -- Acknowledgements -- References -- CHAPTER 9 GENDER AND TEXTILE PRODUCTION IN ROMAN SOCIETY AND POLITICS Description based upon print version of record. 9.1 Wool-work and exemplary women of early Rome: Tanaquil and Lucretia Clothing and dress History To 500 Women's clothing History To 1500 Textile fabrics History To 1500 Sex role History To 1500 Ancient history: to c 500 CE Clothing and dress Sex role Textile fabrics Women's clothing To 1500 fast GT530 391.009 Textiles and Gender in Antiquity : From the Orient to the Mediterranean Harlow, Mary London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,c2020 9781350141506 135014150X http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350141520?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections EBLCP 200919 20250218182709.3 in00005617977 eng