Structures of power : law and gender across the ancient Near East and beyond

Körperschaft: Structures of Power: Law and Gender Across the Ancient Near East and Beyond (Conference) University of Chicago Oriental Institute)
Weitere Verfasser: Peled, Ilan, , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Chicago : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2017.
Umfang/Format: vii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Schriftenreihe: University of Chicago Oriental Institute seminars ; no. 12.
Schlagworte:
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Structures of power: law and gender across the ancient Near East and beyond / Ilan Peled
  • 1. Gender relations and inheritance in legal codes and legal practice in ancient Egypt / Brian Muhs
  • 2. Gender and sex crimes in the ancient Near East: law and custom / Ilan Peled
  • 3. Greek sexual offences and their remedies: honor and the primacy of family / Adele C. Scafuro
  • 4. Roman bigamy: the impossible sex crime / Thomas A. J. McGinn
  • 5. Narrative jurisprudence and legal reform: an alternative reading of China's first treatise on penal law (The Hanshu "Xing fa zhi"《漢書。刑法志》) / Laura A. Skosey
  • 6. Women and household dependents in Ur III court records / Laura Culbertson
  • 7. Spheres of economic and administrative control in Middle Kingdom Egypt: textual, visual, and archaeological evidence for female and male sealers / Melinda G. Nelson-Hurst
  • 8. Females as sources of authority in Hittite government and religion / Gary Beckman
  • 9. The Dowager v. the Royal Court: a ninth-century BCE case of family law recorded in Chinese bronze inscriptions / Edward L. Shaughnessy
  • 10. Women's archives from Elephantine and the Judean Desert: law codes and archaeological finds / Tal Ilan
  • 11. From Nuzi to Medina: Q. 4:12b, revisited / David S. Powers
  • 12. Law and gender across the ancient Near East and beyond / Janet H. Johnson, |r Martha T. Roth.