Edited by Diane Bolger - Contributions by Stuart Campbell; Karina Croucher; Aurelie Daems; Julia Asher-Greve; Kirsi Lorentz; Kathleen McCaffrey; Sarah Milledge Nelson; Nancy Serwint and Rita P. Wright

This is the first book to consider issues of gender and social identity across a broad temporal and geographical range of civilizations in the ancient Near East.

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 1 Ambiguous Genders? Alternative Interpretations: A Discussion of Case Studies from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic - Halaf Periods Chapter 2 Feasting and Dancing: Gendered Representation and Pottery in Later Mesopotamian Prehistory Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Evaluating Patterns of Gender through Mesopotamian and Iranian Figurines: A Reassessment of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Industries Chapter 6 Images of Men, Gender Regimes, and Social Stratification in the Late Uruk Period Chapter 6 Complex Identities: Gender, Age and Status in the Early Bronze Age of the Middle Euphrates Valley Chapter 8 The Female Kings of Ur Chapter 9 Gender Relations: Kinship, Property and Labor in Southern Mesopotamia Chapter 10 From Life Course to longue durée: Headshaping as Gendered Capital? Chapter 11 Gender in the Sanctuary: Votive Offerings and Deity at Ancient Marion Chapter 12 Gendered Fields in Ancient Near Eastern Studies: Past, Present, Future