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

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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Main Author: Milnor, Kristina (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Women > Rome > Social conditions.
Women > History > To 500.
Sex role > Rome.
Households > Rome.
Women.
Gender identity.
Gender roles.
Role behavior.
Gender.
Rome > Social life and customs.
Rome > History > Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780191515644
0191515647
9780199280827
0199280827
1280758236
9781280758232
1429430834
9781429430838
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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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