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| List of plates and photo credits | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| Preface | ||
| 1 | Re-reading: a partial survey of scholarship | 3 |
| 2 | Reading the genre | 16 |
| 3 | Representations of female sexualities | 32 |
| 4 | Rape in Roman law and myth | 45 |
| 5 | Woman as symbol of decadence | 56 |
| 6 | Womanly weakness in Roman law | 73 |
| 7 | Profits and patronage | 89 |
| 8 | Women's work: perceptions of public and private | 113 |
| 9 | Conclusion: the allure of 'La dolce vita' in ancient Rome | 133 |
| App. 1 | Map: Italy and its surrounds, late Republic/early Empire | 157 |
| App. 2 | Some useful dates | 158 |
| App. 3 | Legal appendix | 160 |
| Notes | 163 | |
| Bibliography | 205 | |
| Index of ancient sources | 224 | |
| General index | 230 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Kristine Barger
reviewed Reading Roman Women: Sources, Genres, and Real Life on June 09, 2016
Reading Roman Women
This book is much cited and it's easy to see why: Dixon eschews any kind of easy assumptions about the 'reality' of Roman women as recuperated from the texts and instead problematises our approach to reading. By seeing genre as a major condition of the depiction of gender she begins to unpick the way in which famous Roman women, good and bad, (Lucretia, Verginia vs. Messalina, Julia, Sempronia, Clodia, Lesbia) are all the products of discourse and are self-created by the genres in which they appear, which are themselves subject to usually-male anxieties and concerns.
Far more methodologically sophisticated than the famous (and eminently readable) Wiseman book, this upsets some of the easy reconciliations between 'fictional' and 'real' or 'historical' woman. The major drawback is the lack of detailed textual analysis as this is more a selection of essays which reflect Dixon's own intellectual engagement over time with this difficult issue.
An important book which everyone working on Roman women and gender should read.
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