Knowledge about the roles of women in ancient civilizations has been limited to traditionally held notions, but recent discoveries and research have led to exci

Features essays about women's roles in 12 ancient civilizations--China, India, Japan, Mesopotamia, the Levant, Egypt, West Africa, Greece, Rome, the Maya, the I

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Economic history is well documented in Assyriology, thanks to the preservation of dozens of thousands of clay tablets recording administrative operations, contr

Indispensable for the student or researcher studying women's history, this book draws upon a wide array of cultural settings and time periods in which women dis