Gender, domesticity, and the age of Augustus : inventing private life /

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In the early Roman Empire, women's domestic roles were given new public prominence. Through an examination of early imperial representations of women's activities and responsibilities within the household, Kristina Milnor argues that this emphasis on private morality is actually a new way...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Milnor, Kristina (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Series:Oxford studies in classical literature and gender theory.
Subjects:
To 500
Women > Rome > Social conditions.
Women > History > To 500.
Sex role > Rome.
Households > Rome.
Femmes > Rome > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Histoire > Jusqu'à 500.
Rôle selon le sexe > Rome.
Ménages (Statistique) > Rome.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Households
Manners and customs
Sex role
Women
Women > Social conditions
Vrouwen.
Romeinse keizertijd.
Rome > Social life and customs.
Rome > History > Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D.
Rome > Histoire > 30 av. J.-C.-14 (Auguste)
Rome (Empire)
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Reading and writing gender on the Augustan Palatine
  • Other men's wives: domesticity and display in Vitruvius' De Architectura
  • Women, history, and the law
  • Domestic disturbance: talking about the Triumvirs in the early Empire
  • Natural urges: marriage, philosophy, and the work of the house
  • Epilogue: burning down the house: Nero and the end of Julio-Claudian rule.

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