A fascinating book shedding light on the sexual culture of one of the earliest literate civilisations and provides a new contribution to current debates about sex, eroticism and gender.
Autorentext
Dr Gwendolyn Leick
Zusammenfassung
Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature is a new contribution to current debates about sex and eroticism. It gives an insight into Mesopotamian attitudes to sexuality by examining the oldest preserved written evidence on the subject - the Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform sources - which were written between the 21st and the 5th centuries B.C. Using these long-neglected and often astonishing data, Gwendolyn Leick is able to anlayse Mesopotamian views of prostitution, love magic and deviant sexual behaviour as well as more general issues of sexuality and gender. This fascinating book sheds light on the sexual culture of one of the earliest literate civilisations.
Inhalt
List of illustrations Acknowledgements Preface Notes for Non-Assyriologist readers Abbreviations Chronological Chart Map Introduction Part I: The Sumero-Akkadian tradition of the third and early second millennium, The cosmological articulation of sexuality 1. Masculine sexuality in Sumerian Literature 2. Femininity and Eroticism in Sumerian Literature Part II: Sources from the later second and first millennium Glossary Illustrations Bibliography
Titel
Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature
Autor
EAN
9781134920747
ISBN
978-1-134-92074-7
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Genre
Veröffentlichung
11.01.2013
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
8.52 MB
Anzahl Seiten
336
Jahr
2013
Untertitel
Englisch
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