In Discourse 1, you identified yourself as a person in the present in a particular place and time.
Now learn about the role of women from the following period in ancient Mesopotamia (see the references below) and do the same with that person’s identifying characteristics. Be mindful of ‘Presentism’ which is the unavoidable tendency to superimpose your experience on to experiences from the past that are unfamiliar to you.
Discuss the ways in which life of this woman would be different from yours
Discuss ways in which life for her would be similar to yours.
In what ways do you feel you can successfully compare your life to hers?
In what ways are you aware that you cannot know this woman’s experience?
Draw upon what information from the reading you can from the culture of that historic period. Cf. The Role of Women (Source – Hist&116 OER in HIST&116_Materials Audit) Additional details can be found in this overview of the role of Women in Babylonia Under the Hammurabi Law Code (Johnson, J. C., 2010)
http://mesopotamia.lib.uchicago.edu/mesopotamialife/article.php?theme=Role%20of%20Women
http://www.womenintheancientworld.com/hammurabilawcode.htm