Textiles and Gender in Antiquity

Name: Textiles and Gender in Antiquity | From the Orient to the Mediterranean
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From the Orient to the Mediterranean

Mary Harlow Cecile Michel Louise Quillien(Herausgeber*in)

Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)

Erschienen am 19. Mai 2022

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328 Seiten

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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.

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[Textiles and Gender in Antiquity] is a great resource for in depth knowledge and studies of Antiquity, textiles, and gender. * Journal of Dress History * This essential volume provides a much-needed study of textiles, dress, and gender in the ancient world. With its wide chronological and geographical range, it provides students and scholars with useful information from the ancient Near East to late antique Rome in a series of essays that look not only at clothing and textile production, but also at how these categories were almost always cast in terms of gender in antiquity. -- Kelly Olson, Professor of Classical Studies, University of Western Ontario, Canada

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1. Textiles and Gender in Antiquity: An Introduction
Mary Harlow (Leicester, UK), Cecile Michel (CNRS, ArScAn, Nanterre, France) and Louise Quillien (Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France)

Gendered Textile Terminologies

2. Textiles and Gender during the Middle Babylonian Period (ca. 1500-1000 BCE): Texts from Syria and Babylonia
Philippe Abrahami (Independent Scholar, France) and Brigitte Lion (Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France)

3. The Goddess Nanaja's New Clothes
Francis Joannes (Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France)

4. Textiles and Gender at Ugarit
Valerie Matoian (CNRS, Proclac, France) and Juan-Pablo Vita (Independent Scholar, Spain)

5. Towards Engendering Textile Production in Middle Bronze Age Crete
Agata Ulanowska (Independent Scholar, Poland)

Gendered Textile Activities

6. A Man's Business? Washing the Clothes in Ancient Egypt (Second and First Millennia BCE)
Damien Agut-Labordere (CNRS, France)

7. Women, Men, Girls and Boys: Gendered Textile Work at Late Bronze Age Knossos
Hedvig Landenius Enegren (Independent Scholar, Uppsala)

8. Female Dues and the Production of Textiles in Ancient Greece
Beate Wagner-Hasel (Independent Scholar, Germany)

9. Gender and Textile Production in Roman Society and Politics
Lena Larsson Loven (Independent Scholar, Germany)

10. Work Gendering Space? Roman Gender, Textile Work and Time in Shared Domestic Space
Magdalena Ohrman (University of Wales, UK)

Gendered Wardrobes

11. Some Remarks on Textiles and Gender in the Ebla Texts of the 3rd Millennium BCE
Maria Giovanna Biga (Rome, La Sapienza, Italy)

12. A Visual Investigation of Feminine Garments at Mari During the Early Bronze Age
Barbara Couturaud (Institut Francais du Proche-Orient, Iraq)

13. Belts and Pins as Gendered Elements of Clothing in Third and Second Millennia Mesopotamia
Cecile Michel (CNRS, ArScAn, France)

14. 'I made you put on garments, I made you dress in linen.' Gender Performance and Garments in Sumerian Literature
Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel (Unistra, Strasbourg, France)

15. The Gender of Garments in First Millennium BCE Mesopotamia: An Inquiry Through Texts and Iconography
Louise Quillien (Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France)

16. White Men and Rainbow Women: Gendered Colour Coding in Roman Dress
Cecilie Brons (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Denmark) and Mary Harlow (Leicester University, UK)

17. Garments for Potters? Textiles, Gender and Funerary Practices in Les Martres-de-Veyre, France (Roman Period)
Catherine Breniquet (Clermont-Auvergne, France ), Marie Beche-Wittman, Christine Bouilloc and Camille Gaumat (Musee Bargoin, Clermont-Ferrand, France)

18. Fashioning the Female in the Early North African Church
Amy Place (Leicester University, UK)

19. Climate Change and Clothing Changes in Late Antique Male Dress
Nikki K. Rollason (Leicester University, UK)

Afterwords

20. A Note on Gender and French 'Haute Couture' in 1970: 'Les Sumeriennes' by Jacques Esterel
Brigitte Lion (Paris 1 Pantheon - Sorbonne, France)

21. Concluding Remarks
Eva Andersson Strand (Independent Scholar, Denmark)

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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