I tend to collect and study all that I can get hold of on Inanna/Ishtar. Latest acquisitions:

1) NIN - Journal of Gender Studies in Antiquity, volume 1, published in october 2000 by Styx in the Netherlands is totally dedicated to Inanna/Ishtar. Articles from some of the best and most learned modern Assyriologists and experts in Women, Gender and the Ancient Near East. Highly recommended.

2) Babylonian Women - Gender and Represenation in Mesopotamia by Zainab Bahrani has a chapter on Inanna/Ishtar. I am not very fond of post-structuralism, and quite sincerely do not find that Freud, Lacan, Althusser, Derrida, etc. have succeeded or are convincing in their approaches to Inanna/Ishtar. is successors are much successful or convincing their approaches to the mighty figure of Inanna/Ishtar. However, the author does a very good job in covering the literature and her idea of alterity for Inanna is certainly interesting.

I find though that the literature review on Inanna/Ishtar is more interesting than the idea of Inanna as the paradox of opposites and infinite variety, which can only be understood in the light Jungian Psychology as the conciliation of apparently conflicting ideas to encompass the Whole.

best,
Lishtar

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