Women and gender in Ancient Near Eastern historiography: past, present and future of the research

Abstract

Studies on women and gender have focused, for some time and in major or minor measure, on all the stages of the Humanity. Nevertheless, some of them have not received the necessary attention, as it is the case of the Ancient Near East. In the present work I propose a historiographic revision on the subject, paying special attention to the particularities and the specific problems of the topic. Likewise it is shown, as a kind of bibliographical introduction, the concrete themes which have been treated and the future perspectives, in order to estimate the potential of the sources.