What people are saying - Write a reviewReview: Reading Roman WomenUser Review - Tara Calaby - GoodreadsThis is an important book for those studying or interested in Roman women. Dixon works from a strongly feminist viewpoint, which is particularly effective here as she draws in feminist theory from other disciplines in such a way that it adds greatly to the exploration of the subject at hand. Read full review Related books
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12 other sections not shown Common terms and phrasesabortion activity adultery ancient Augustus Aulus Gellius authors Caelius Cato Cato the Elder Catullus Chapter characterisation chastity Cicero classical Claudius Clodia Clodia Metelli Codex Iustinianus Codex Theodosianus commemorated cultural depicted Digest Dixon economic elite emperor epitaphs example favours female sexuality feminine feminist freed slaves Gaius gender genres girl Greek historians husband inscriptions invective Joshel jurists Juvenal Kampen late Republic Latin Lesbia literary Livia Livy loans Lucretia male marriage masculine Messalina modern moral mother narrative Ovid owners patron patronage Pliny Letters Plutarch poems poetry political Pompeii Quintilian rape reading references representations Richlin roles Roman Italy Roman law Roman women Rome satire scholars scholarship second century BCE senatorial Skinner social sources specific speech status stereotypes Suetonius Tacitus Tacitus Annals texts Tiberius tion traditional tutela mulierum tutores Ulpian Valerius Maximus Verginia virtue wealth wife Wiseman wives woman womanly References to this bookFrom other books
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