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Rivkah Harriss cross-cultural and multidisciplinary approach breaks new ground in assessing Mesopotamian attitudes toward youth and mature adulthood, aging and the elderly, generational conflict, gender differences in aging, relationships between men and women, womens contributions to cultural activities, and the ideal woman.To uncover Mesopotamian perspectives, Harris combed through primary sources - including literature and myth, letters, economic and legal texts, and visual materials. Even such pivotal cultural influences as the Gilgamesh Epic and Enuma Elish are reinterpreted in an original manner.

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title Gender and Aging in Mesopotamia The Gilgamesh Epic and Other - photo 1
title:Gender and Aging in Mesopotamia : The Gilgamesh Epic and Other Ancient Literature
author:Harris, Rivkah.
publisher:University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin:0806131675
print isbn13:9780806131672
ebook isbn13:9780585257587
language:English
subjectAged women--Iraq--History--To 1500, Aging--Iraq--History--To 1500, Assyro-Babylonian literature--History and literature, Sex role--Iraq--History--To 1500.
publication date:2000
lcc:HQ1064.I69H37 2000eb
ddc:305.26/09567
subject:Aged women--Iraq--History--To 1500, Aging--Iraq--History--To 1500, Assyro-Babylonian literature--History and literature, Sex role--Iraq--History--To 1500.
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Gender and Aging in Mesopotamia
The Gilgamesh Epic and Other Ancient Literature
Rivkah Harris
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Harris, Rivkah.
Gender and aging in Mesopotamia: the Gilgamesh epic and
other ancient literature / Rivkah Harris.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8061-3167-5 (alk. paper)
1. Aged womenIraqHistoryTo 1500. 2. AgingIraq
HistoryTo 1500. 3. Assyro-Babylonian literatureHistory
and literature. 4. Sex rolesIraqHistoryTo 1500. 1. Title.
HQ1064.169H37 2000
305.26'09567dc21 99-39923
CIP
Text design by Gail Carter.
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc.
Copyright 2000 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A.
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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Chronological Table
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1. The Life Course
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2. Gilgamesh's Coming of Age
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3. On Aging and the Elderly
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4. The Conflict of Generations in Ancient Mesopotamian Myths
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5. Gendered Old Age in Enuma Elish
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6. Old(er) Women
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7. Images of Women in the Gilgamesh Epic
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8. Gender and Sexuality in the Myth of Nergal and Ereshkigal
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9. The Female "Sage" in Mesopotamian Literature
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10. Inanna-Ishtar as Paradox and a Coincidence of Opposites
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Glossary
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List of Abbreviations
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Notes
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Bibliography
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