Femmes (les)

New Turkish Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 602 p., color ills. Eskiçag Anadolu toplumlarinda kadin. Anayanli bir Hitit kraliçesi: Puduhepa ve zamani. The book concerns the history of Ancient Anatolian women in its historical and social development and the life of the Hurro-Hittite queen Puduhepa. It begins with a scrutinizing of the role of woman from the prehistoric times down to the Hittite period (60.000-17700 BCE) and outlines, regarding also the feminism, the history of the woman, and details the women and queens among the Hittites. My starting point is that it is absolutely worthwhile to single out the life and unique deeds of a matriarchal woman who lived and acted fortuitously in the midst of extremely patriarchal Indo-European society in Hatti. She is the only Hittite queen, who bears quasi-"feminist" features, and her role in the Hittite-Anatolian society remains unique.