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Women in ancient Greece : a sourcebook
The study of women in the ancient Mediterranean world is a topic of growing interest among classicists and ancient historians, and also students of history, sociology and women's studies. This volume is an essential resource supplying a compilation of source material in translation, with suggestions for further reading, a general bibliography, and an index of ancient authors and works.
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Women in ancient Rome : a sourcebook
\"This sourcebook includes a selection of Roman original sources in translation ranging from the Etruscan period through Republican and Imperial Rome to the late Empire and the coming of Christianity. From Roman goddesses to mortal women, imperial women to slaves and prostitutes, the volume brings new perspectives to the study of Roman women's lives. Literary sources comprise works by Livy, Catullus, Ovid, Juvenal and many others.\"--Publisher's description.
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Virginity revisited
This is a study of the positive and negative features of sexual renunciation, from ancient Greek divinities and mythical women, in Rome's Vestal Virgins, in the Christian martyrs and Mariology in the Medieval and early Modern period, and in Grace Marks, the heroine of Margaret Atwood's novelAlias Grace.
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Ritual and the Performance of Identity: Women and Gender in the Ancient World
A third significant point that would be accepted by the authors in all seven volumes under review is the fact that an examination of ritual and sexuality within a culture is a valuable tool for reading its social norms and tensions, including sexual identity and gender relations therein. Classic Mayan women who were shown producing fine textiles with elaborately decorated tools were \"not just performing femininity: they were performing a femininity of the noble class,\" as Joyce points out (94); she therefore reinforces her point that the archaeology of sex and gender encompasses multiple forms of femininity and masculinity, and any study must look beneath the physical exterior of individuals to ask important questions about how their experiences constructed their identity (113-14).\\n She does, however, provide evidence for a class distinction in religious offices: the highest positions, sacerdotae (\"priestesses\") were reserved for freeborn women, particularly wealthy women; freedwomen and slave women served only as attendants (magistrae, ministrae) (74). The charge of women's sexual misconduct in ritual often betrayed anxiety over political instability, and Schultz raises the familiar example of the Bacchic scandal of 186BCE, in which the account of the historian Livy blames the lascivious nature of the festival on the fact that men were allowed to participate with women, leading to its brutal suppression by the Roman Senate.
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