Women's lives, women's voices : Roman material culture and female agency in the Bay of Naples

Women's lives, women's voices Roman material culture and female agency in the Bay of Naples

Literary evidence is often silent about the lives of women in antiquity, particularly those from the buried cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Even when women are considered, they are often seen through the lens of their male counterparts. In this collection, Brenda Longfellow and Molly Swetnam-Burl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Longfellow, Brenda, 1973- (-), Swetnam-Burland, Molly
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press [2021]
Edición:First edition
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b47445117*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Negotiating silence, finding voices, and articulating agency / Brenda Longfellow and Molly Swetnam-Burland
  • Part I. Public and commercial identities
  • Pompeian women and the making of a material history / Lauren Hackworth Petersen
  • Women's work? investors, money-handlers, and dealers / Molly Swetnam-Burland
  • From household to workshop: women, weaving, and the peculium / Lauren Caldwell
  • Buying power: the public priestesses of Pompeii / Barbara Kellum
  • Real estate for profit: Julia Felix's property and the Forum frieze / Eve D'Ambra
  • Part II. Women on display
  • Contextualizing the funerary and honorific portrait statues of women in Pompeii / Brenda Longfellow
  • Portraits and patrons: the women of the Villa of the Mysteries in their social context / Elaine K. Gazda
  • "What's in a name?" mapping women's names from the graffiti of Pompeii and Herculaneum / Erika Zimmermann Damer
  • The public and private lives of Pompeian prostitutes / Sarah Levin-Richardson
  • Part III. Representing women
  • Women, art, power, and work in the House of the Chaste Lovers at Pompeii / Jennifer Trimble
  • The House of the Triclinium (V.2.4) at Pompeii: the house of a "courtesan"? / Luciana Jacobelli
  • Sex on display in Pompeii's tavern VII.7.18 / Jessica Powers
  • Drawings of women at Pompeii / Margaret L. Laird
  • Epilogue. The complexity of silence / Allison L. C. Emmerson.

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