Motherhood in antiquity. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Dana Cooper, Claire Phelan, editors.
• Editors: Cooper, Dana, 1977-; Phelan, Claire
• Contents: Dedication; Contents; List of Contributors; List of Figures; Introduction; Motherhood and Religion; Motherhood and Politics; Motherhood and Identity; Part I: Motherhood and Religion; "I Arose a Mother in Israel": Motherhood as a Liberating Power in the Biblical Stories of Miriam and Deborah; Introduction; Motherhood as a Men's Culture Versus Motherhood as a Women's Culture; The Legacy of the Matria in the Biblical Text; Miriam the Prophetess: A Great Mother, Savior and Subversive Leader; Deborah the Prophetess: A Judge, Spiritual Leader, and a Warrior Inspired by the Goddess Mother. Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Models of Devotion?: The Rhetoric of Ambivalence and Admonition in Late Antique and Early Christian Discourse on Women and Motherhood; Early Christian Culture and Women; Woman, Wife and Mother in Early Christian Culture; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Motherhood in the Ancient Indian Buddhist World: A Soteriological Path; Mahāpajāpatı̄; Visākhā; Spiritual "Coaching"; The Mothering Path; The Buddhist Path; Mothering as the Actualization of the Path; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Part II: Motherhood and Politics. Mother Knows Best: Motherhood and Succession in the Seleucid Realm; A Sick Man to a Happy Family: The Seleucid Empire; Setting the Trend: Early Seleucid Queen Mothers; Steering the Path: Queen Mothers and Succession in the Main Dynasty; All the Other Queens: Secondary Seleucid Women; Conclusions; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Mamaea's Little Man: Alexander Severus, His Mother, and the Germanic War; Introduction; The Rise and Fall of Alexander; The Vita Militaris and the First Man; Contra Elagabalus; Alexander as Soldier; The Final Hours of Alexander and His Mother; Conclusion; Notes. Selected Bibliography; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Jingû: Narratives of Motherhood and Imperial Rule in Early Japan; Jingû's Legitimacy as Sovereign; Jingû's Tenure as Sovereign; Securing Prince Homuda's Transition to Sovereign Ôjin; Jingû and the Sumiyoshi Shrine; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Part III: Motherhood and Identity; Earthly and Divine Mothers in Ancient Egypt; Earthly Mothers; Becoming a Mother; Elderly Mothers; Legal Protection of and Economic Provisions for Mothers; Divine Mothers; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography. Bronze Age Beginnings: The Conceptualization of Motherhood in Prehistoric Europe; Introduction; The European Bronze Age; Bronze Age Women; Mothers; Death During Pregnancy and Childbirth; Marriage and Residential Patterns; Family Relations; Sibling Spacing; Breastfeeding and Weaning; Toys and Child-Specific Material Culture; Conclusion: Motherhood in the Bronze Age; Notes; Selected Bibliography; From Cybele to Artemis: Motherhood and Great Mothers of Ancient Anatolia; The Women of the Land; Anatolian Great Mothers; The Great Round and Isis; Origins of Female Worship in Anatolia.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 267 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 306.874309; Motherhood -- History -- To 1500; Motherhood in art; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; Motherhood; Motherhood in art; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319489025
• Related ISBNs: 331948902X; 9783319489018; 3319489011
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 24, 2017).
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