@article{351753,
      recid = {351753},
      author = {Budin, Stephanie Lynn.},
      title = {Images of woman and child from the Bronze Age :  reconsidering fertility, maternity, and gender in the  ancient world /},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {x, 384 pages :},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {"This book is a study of the woman-and-child motif as it  appeared in the Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean, focusing  on Egypt, the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Iran, Cyprus,  and the Aegean. Rather than being a universal symbol of  maternity, or a depiction of a mother goddess, the  woman-and-child motif, called by the technical name  kourotrophos, was relatively rare in comparison wtih other  images of women in antiquity, and served a number of  different symbolic functions, ranging from honoring the  king of Egypt to giving extra oomph to magical spells"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/351753},
}