Babil'in Kadınları-Mezopotamya'da Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve Temsil

Back Cover Article (From the Promotional Bulletin)

Women of Babylon is both a historical and art historical study that examines the dominant notion of femininity in Ancient Mesopotamia and brings a critical approach to the concept of femininity constructed by the Western founding discourse specific to this society.

While Zainab Bahrani analyzes how this culture thinks about sexuality and gender roles through representation, she also problematizes simple binaries such as masculine power/female subordination, on which many similar works depend. In this way, it shows that existing definitions do not actually coincide with women's lived experiences and position women as the object of masculine subjectivity.

" Women of Babylon is a study of representations of femininity that find ground in contemporary critical theory in the context of gender, semiotics, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and historical criticism, and these fields as a whole not only feed into the study of this past culture but also confront the question of how we, for our part, call the past." It creates a methodological network."

Prepared by: Eda Çaça
Editing: Serkan Gündüz
Cover Design: Deniz Akkol

Paste Type: 2nd Edition Number

of Printings: 1st Edition

First Printing Year: 2018

Number of Pages: 344

Size: 13.5 x 19.5