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This essay reviews “gendered” archaeologies of Minoan and Mycenaean women, to demonstrate that a rigorous and theoretically informed focus on women helps us reweave the fabric of ancient societies at large (cf. Barber 1994; Adovasio et al. 2007).
13 lut 2012 · exaggerated emphasis on the female roles in religion, myth, and ritual; and outdated notions of matriarchy and matrocentrism, which developed in binary opposition to patriarchal paradigms of...
This article looks at two works of art from Minoan Crete -- the Ivory Triad (found in Mycenae but of Minoan manufacture) and a terracotta from Mavrospelio--and argues that both depict not mothers or adult women, but adolescent girls.
To do this, this essay will examine the female stock figures in Minoan art in the hopes of understanding why women were represented in this way. Particularly concentrating on five pieces of artwork.
27 sty 2012 · This chapter contains sections titled: Ladies, Queens, Leaders: “Gendering Authority”. Women, Religion, Power: Ritual Experts and Cultural Facilitators. Crafters, Nourishers, and Providers. Bodies and Personae: Archaeologies of Corporeality and Identity. Growing to Be a Woman: Coming of Age, Fertility, Motherhood.
12/2/2019 Minoan Culture and its Women - The Role of Women in the Art of Ancient Greece. Culture. Goddesses: ...
In a sense, I am revamping Graham’s old hypothesis of men’s halls and women’s halls, but I am turning the argument around: Minoan residences were foremost female domains for both ritual and domestic activities centering on lustral basins and associated Minoan halls.
