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Journal of Gender Studies in Antiquity
Volume 2 (2001)

Contents

Articles
WOMEN AND WAR
Amélie Kuhrt
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WALKING ALONE FOREVER, FOLLOWING YOU: GENDER AND MOURNERS' LAMENTS FROM ANCIENT EGYPT
Deborah Sweeney
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SUCCESSFUL BIRTH, UNSUCCESSFUL MARRIAGE: AESCHYLUS' SUPPLIANTS AND MESOPOTAMIAN BIRTH INCANTATIONS
Mary R. Bachvarova
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Review Articles

A. J. Ferrara: Review of  Richard A. Henshaw. Female and Male: The Cultic Personnel. The Bible and Rest of the Near East. Princeton Theological Monograph Series, 31. Allison Park, PA: Pickwick Publications, 1994.

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Book Reviews
Maria Wyke, ed. Gender and the Body in the Ancient Mediterranean. Oxford and Malden: Blackwell Publishers, 1998; Maria Wyke, ed. Parchments of Gender. Deciphering the Bodies of Antiquity. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998 ; Dominic Montserrat, ed. Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings: Studies on the Human Body in Antiquity. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. (Reviewed by Heinz Felber) 105

Sophie Lafont. Femmes, Droit et Justice dans l’Antiquité orientale, Contribution à l’étude du droit pénal au Proche-Orient ancient. OBO 165. Fribourg Suisse: Editions Universitaires, 1999. (Reviewed by J.-J. Glassner)

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Volkert Haas. Babylonischer Liebesgarten. Erotik und Sexualität im alten Orient. München: C.H. Beck Verlag, 1999; Brigitte Musche. Die Liebe in der altorientalischen Dichtung. Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East XV. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1999. (Reviewed by J.G. Westenholz)

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Lucy Goodison and Christine Morris, eds. Ancient Goddesses: The Myths and the Evidence. Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press and British Museum Press, 1998. (Reviewed by M.F. Wogec)
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Conference News

“Courtly Ambiguities: Harem and Gender in the Eastern Medirerranean,” University of California, Berkeley. March 4, 2000. (Reviewed by  Laurie E. Pearce)

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“The World of Women: Gender and Archaeology” and “The Anatolian Mother Goddess,” . American Schools of Oriental Research, annual meeting. (Reviewed by Jennifer C. Ross)

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