@article{TEXTUAL,
      recid = {5036},
      author = {Richardson, Seth},
      title = {Hard Times for Sippar Women: Three Late Old Babylonian  Cases},
      journal = {Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History},
      address = {2022-07-08},
      number = {TEXTUAL},
      abstract = {Despite important work on issues of gender and  representation with regard to women’s history in  Mesopotamia over the past generation or two, less direct  attention has been devoted to the hard reality of women’s  socio-economic inequality in this starkly patriarchal  culture. The present contribution takes up three examples  of groups of women living in varying degrees of hardship  and deprivation in the Late Old Babylonian period: slave,  poor nadītums, and dependents. I analyze small corpora of  evidence about these women to make two basic points: first,  Mesopotamian women were subject to structural inequities  which manifested themselves in repeatable ways (without  requiring that we call them “weak” or “powerless”); second,  despite consistent and persistent inequality, women’s  histories were yet as mutable and subject to change as  those of men. It is no more effective to write the  histories of only “strong women” than it is to write them  of only “great men.” Intersectional issues such as  socio-economic difference must be taken into account to  arrive at a better working picture of this or any society.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/5036},
}