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Tables of Contents for Women of Babylon
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of plates
viii
Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction: women of Babylon -- gender and representation in Mesopotamia
1
6
Women/sex/gender: women's history and the ancient Near East
7
21
Envisioning difference: femininity and representation
28
12
The metaphorics of the body: nudity, the goddess, and the Gaze
40
30
That obscure object of desire: nudity, fetishism, and the female body
70
26
Priestess and princess: patronage, portraiture, identity
96
25
A woman's place: femininity in narrative art
121
20
Ishtar: the embodiment of tropes
141
20
Babylonian women in the Orientalist imagination
161
19
Notes
180
4
Annotated bibliography
184
5
References
189
21
Index
210