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A Cultural History of Women in Antiquity: The Cultural Histories Series

Editat de Janet H. Tulloch
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 sep 2016
A Cultural History of Women in Antiquity explores women's history in the West from 500 BCE to 1000 CE. This time period includes women's participation in Greek and Roman civilization, and the Christianization of the Roman Empire up to Late Antiquity. Key issues include the impact of changing cultural forces and discourses on female autonomy and agency, women's relationship to public and religious circles of power, and women's status in domestic and public space.A Cultural History of Women in Antiquity presents an overview of the period with essays on female sexual practices, literacy, education and work, medical treatments and authority, ritual office and superstitious practices, cultural transitions and representation, and differences between ideology and actual social practices in identifying women's use of public and private space.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350009189
ISBN-10: 1350009180
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 32 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 169 x 244 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria The Cultural Histories Series

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

The structure allows readers to study periods (by reading a volume) or themes through history (by reading chapters across volumes)

Notă biografică

Janet H. Tulloch is a Contract Instructor in the College of Humanities at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She is author of several articles on Women and Antiquity including: "Devotional Visuality and Family Funerary Monuments in the Roman World," "Women Leaders in Family Funerary Banquets," and "Art and Archaeology as an Historical Resource for the Study of Women in Early Christianity."

Cuprins

A Cultural History of Women in Antiquity, Edited by Janet H. TullochIntroduction The Life Cycle, Katariina Mustakallio, University of Tampere, Finland Bodies & Sexuality, Allison Glazebrook, Brock University, Canada and Nicola Mellor, Independent ScholarReligion & Popular Beliefs, Janet H. Tulloch, Carleton University, CanadaMedicine & Disease, Steven Muir, Concordia University College of Alberta, Canada and Laurence Totelin, Cardiff University, UKPublic & Private, Kristina Milnor, Barnard College, USAEducation & Work, Marcia H. Lindgren, University of Iowa, USAPower, Lynda Garland, University of New England, USAArtistic Representation, Shelby Brown, UCLA, USA