Gender and aging in Mesopotamia : the Gilgamesh epic and other ancient literature /

Gender and aging in Mesopotamia : the Gilgamesh epic and other ancient literature / Rivkah Harris.

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Main Author: Harris, Rivkah.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, ©2000.
Subjects:
Older women > Iraq > History > To 634.
Aging > Iraq > History > To 634.
Assyro-Babylonian literature > History and literature.
Sex role > Iraq > History > To 634.
Table of Contents:
  • The life course
  • Gilgamesh's coming of age
  • On aging and the elderly
  • The conflict of generations in ancient Mesopotamian myths
  • Gendered old age in Enuma Elish
  • Old(er) women
  • Images of women in the Gilgamesh epic
  • Gender and sexuality in the myth of Nergal and Ereshkigal
  • The female "sage" in Mesopotamian literature
  • Inanna-Ishtar as paradox and a coincidence of opposites.

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