Introduction / Nicole Brish and Fumi Karahashi
Women's History and Gender History in Japan / Yuko Matsumoto. Part I. Businesswomen, Empresses, and Royal Women. Socio-Economic Aspects and Agency of Female Maš-da-ri-a Contributors in Presargonic Lagash / Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Fumi Karahashi
The Role of Women in Assyrian Foreign Policy / Katsuji Sani
Women Involved in Daily Management in Achaemenid Babylonia: The Cases of Rē'indu and Andiya / Yoko Watai
Wu Zetian's Buddhist Policy: A New Perspective / Huang Haijing. Part II. Priestesses. The Office and Responsibilities of the En Priestess of Nanna: Evidence from Votive Inscriptions and Documentary Texts / Seraine Nett
High Priestesses in Old Babylonian Nippur: The NIN and NIN-dingir Priestesses of Ninurta / Nicole Brisch
Hittite Royal Ideology and the Uniqueness of the Priestess Titled NIN.DINGIR / Ada Taggar-Cohen
The Roles of Women in the Practice of Ancient Mesopotamian Divination / Ulla Koch. Part III. Goddesses. Enheduana's Invocations: Form and Force / Sophus Helle
On Language, Gender, Sex, and Style in the Sumerian Language / Piotr Michalowski
Venomous Scorpions and Venerable Women: The Relationship Between Scorpions, the Goddess Išḫara, and Queens in the Neo-Assyrian Period / Troels P. Arbøll
The Networks of Ashtart-Aphrodite and the Archaic Mediterranean Koiné / Carolina López-Ruiz
The Lioness Goddess Statuary from the Rock-Cut Chambers at Northwest Saqqara and Their Cult in Middel Kingdom Egypt / Nozomu Kawai.