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16 lip 2024 · The Minoan civilization, flourishing on the island of Crete around 2000 to 1450 BCE, exhibited intricate social dynamics that shaped its gender roles. Understanding Minoan gender roles provides valuable insights into the cultural fabric of this ancient society.
1. Public female roles. 2 I am hence especially interested in the environment and setting of public female roles. I feel strengthened in this type of quest by the recent work of Alberti10, Chapin11, Kopaka12, Marinatos13, Nikolaidou14, and Rehak15, to mention only a few.
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.
22 gru 2023 · The Minoan civilization thrived from approximately 2600 to 1100 BC, with women playing pivotal roles in religion, culture, and possibly even governance. Frescoes and artifacts unearthed portray women in positions of reverence and power, suggesting a society where gender roles were viewed differently from contemporaneous civilizations.
In the earliest, “heroic,” models, women were cast in roles familiar from Greek epic and mythology, along the lines of cross-cultural syncretism: goddesses, queens, mothers of heroes, slaves—with male political supremacy taken for granted.
This paper explores how ideas about Minoan female deities and about gender relations were situated within contemporary (that is, 19th–early 20th century) ways of viewing the world, focusing specifically on this East-West theme of Orientalism and how this is expressed in the context of the ideology of the “separate spheres” and the idea ...
13 lut 2012 · The study revealed that women in the area are given higher socio-cultural, political and economic roles compared to their Ibo, Hausa and Yoruba counterparts in Nigeria, because of the...
