Women and the Roman City in the Latin West
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Women and the Roman City in the Latin West
(Mnemosyne : bibliotheca classica Batava, Supplements ; v. 360 . History and archaeology of classical antiquity)
Brill, 2013
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Roman Cities, as conventionally studied, seem to be dominated by men. Yet as the contributions to this volume-which deals with the Roman cities of Italy and the western provinces in the late Republic and early Empire-show, women occupied a wide range of civic roles. Women had key roles to play in urban economies, and a few were prominent public figures, celebrated for their generosity and for their priestly eminence, and commemorated with public statues and grand inscriptions. Drawing on archaeology and epigraphy, on law and art as well as on ancient texts, this multidisciplinary study offers a new and more nuanced view of the gendering of civic life. It asks how far the experience of women of the smaller Italian and provincial cities resembled that of women in the capital, how women were represented in sculptural art as well as in inscriptions, and what kinds of power or influence they exercised in the societies of the Latin West.
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List of Contributors
1. Introduction
Emily Hemelrijk and Greg Woolf
Part I: Civic Roles
2. The Role of Women as Municipal Matres
Francesca Cenerini
3. Women beyond Rome: Trend-setters or Dedicated Followers of Fashion?
Alison Cooley
4. Frauen als Teil der kaiserzeitlichen Gesellschaft: ihr Reflex in Inschriften Roms und der italischen Stadte
Werner Eck
5. Female Munificence in the Cities of the Latin West
Emily Hemelrijk
6. The Public Presence of Women in the Cities of Roman North Africa. Two Case Studies: Thamugadi and Cuicul
Christian Witschel
Part II: Participation in Cult
7. Gender and Cult in the Roman West: Mithras, Isis, Attis
John North
8. Women and Animal Sacrifice in Public Life
James Rives
9. Women and the Cult of Magna Mater in the Western Provinces
Wolfgang Spickermann
Part III: Public Representation
10. Honorific vs. Funerary Statues of Women. Essentially the Same or Fundamentally Different?
Glenys Davies
11. Portraits Statues of Women on the Island of Delos.
Sheila Dillon
12. Dressed Women on the Streets of the Ancient City: What to Wear?
Mary Harlow
13. Whose Fashion? Men, Women and Roman Culture as Reflected in Dress in the Cities of the Roman North-West
Ursula Rothe
Part IV: Economics
14. Gendering Medical Provisions in the Cities of the Roman West
Rebecca Flemming
15. Desperate Housewives? The Adaptive Family Economy and Female Participation in the Roman Urban Labour Market
Miriam J. Groen-Vallinga
16. Women and Retail in Roman Italy
Claire Holleran
17. Grain Distribution and Gender in the City of Rome
Coen van Galen
Part V: Mobility
18. Female Mobility in the Roman West
Greg Woolf
19. Female Networks in Military Communities of the Roman West: A View from the Vindolanda Tablets
Elizabeth Greene
20. Female Travelers in Roman Britain: Vibia Pacata and Julia Lucilla
Lien Foubert
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