Reading Roman Women

Informationen zum Autor Suzanne Dixon is a professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Queensland. She has written a number of books and articles on Roman legal and social history. Klappentext An introduction to the true women of the Roman Empire - not those immortalized by the elite men who wrote the history Vorwort This book argues that our ideas of what we "know" about Roman women's work, sexuality, commerce and political activity have been shaped by the format, or genre, of each ancient source. Zusammenfassung How do we retrieve the lives of "real Roman women"? This book presents a range of examples to support the argument that our ideas of what we "know" about women's work, sexuality, commerce and political activity in the Roman world have been shaped by the format, or genre, of each ancient source. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of plates and photo creditsAcknowledgementsPrefaceI. Readings1. Re-readings: a partial survey of scholarship2. Reading the genreII. Reading the Female BodyIntroduction3. Representations of female sexualities4. Rape in Roman law and myth5. Woman as symbol of decadenceIII. Reading the Public Face: Legal and Economic RolesIntroduction6. Womanly weakness in Roman law7. Profits and patronage8. Women's work: perceptions of public and private9. Conclusion: the allure of'La dolce vita' in ancient RomeAppendices1. Map: Italy and its surrounds, late Republic/early Empire2. Some useful dates3. Legal appendix(i) Some legal terms(ii) Some jurists, emperors and datesNotesBibliographyIndex of ancient sourcesGeneral index

Product details

• Authors: Suzanne Dixon, Suzanne D. Dixon
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.06.2001
• EAN: 9780715629819
• ISBN: 978-0-7156-2981-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 233 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, Latin, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Feminism & feminist theory, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory