1. Textiles and Gender in Antiquity: An Introduction Mary Harlow (Leicester, UK), Cecile Michel (CNRS, ArScAn, Nanterre, France) and Louise Quillien (Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France) Gendered Textile Terminologies 2. Textiles and Gender during the Middle Babylonian Period (ca. 1500-1000 BCE): Texts from Syria and Babylonia Philippe Abrahami (Independent Scholar, France) and Brigitte Lion (Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France) 3. The Goddess Nanaja's New Clothes Francis Joannes (Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France) 4. Textiles and Gender at Ugarit Valerie Matoian (CNRS, Proclac, France) and Juan-Pablo Vita (Independent Scholar, Spain) 5. Towards Engendering Textile Production in Middle Bronze Age Crete Agata Ulanowska (Independent Scholar, Poland) Gendered Textile Activities 6. A Man's Business? Washing the Clothes in Ancient Egypt (Second and First Millennia BCE) Damien Agut-Labordere (CNRS, France) 7. Women, Men, Girls and Boys: Gendered Textile Work at Late Bronze Age Knossos Hedvig Landenius Enegren (Independent Scholar, Uppsala) 8. Female Dues and the Production of Textiles in Ancient Greece Beate Wagner-Hasel (Independent Scholar, Germany) 9. Gender and Textile Production in Roman Society and Politics Lena Larsson Loven (Independent Scholar, Germany) 10. Work Gendering Space? Roman Gender, Textile Work and Time in Shared Domestic Space Magdalena Ohrman (University of Wales, UK) Gendered Wardrobes 11. Some Remarks on Textiles and Gender in the Ebla Texts of the 3rd Millennium BCE Maria Giovanna Biga (Rome, La Sapienza, Italy) 12. A Visual Investigation of Feminine Garments at Mari During the Early Bronze Age Barbara Couturaud (Institut Francais du Proche-Orient, Iraq) 13. Belts and Pins as Gendered Elements of Clothing in Third and Second Millennia Mesopotamia Cecile Michel (CNRS, ArScAn, France) 14. 'I made you put on garments, I made you dress in linen.' Gender Performance and Garments in Sumerian Literature Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel (Unistra, Strasbourg, France) 15. The Gender of Garments in First Millennium BCE Mesopotamia: An Inquiry Through Texts and Iconography Louise Quillien (Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France) 16. White Men and Rainbow Women: Gendered Colour Coding in Roman Dress Cecilie Brons (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Denmark) and Mary Harlow (Leicester University, UK) 17. Garments for Potters? Textiles, Gender and Funerary Practices in Les Martres-de-Veyre, France (Roman Period) Catherine Breniquet (Clermont-Auvergne, France ), Marie Beche-Wittman, Christine Bouilloc and Camille Gaumat (Musee Bargoin, Clermont-Ferrand, France) 18. Fashioning the Female in the Early North African Church Amy Place (Leicester University, UK) 19. Climate Change and Clothing Changes in Late Antique Male Dress Nikki K. Rollason (Leicester University, UK) Afterwords 20. A Note on Gender and French 'Haute Couture' in 1970: 'Les Sumeriennes' by Jacques Esterel Brigitte Lion (Paris 1 Pantheon - Sorbonne, France) 21. Concluding Remarks Eva Andersson Strand (Independent Scholar, Denmark) Notes Bibliography Index