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Like man, like woman : Roman women, gender qualities and conjugal relationships at the turn of the first century / Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Centlivres Challet, Claude-Emmanuelle, 1975- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex role--Rome--History.
- Sex role.
- Women--Rome--History--To 500.
- Women.
- Man-woman relationships--Rome--History.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Sex role in literature.
- Women in literature.
- Latin literature--History and criticism.
- Latin literature.
- Juvenal. Satura 6.
- Juvenal.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 201 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Peter Lang, 2013.
- Summary:
- "Modern scholarship often discusses Roman women in terms of their difference from their male counterparts, frequently defining them as 'other'. This book shows how Roman male writers at the turn of the first century actually described women as not so different from men: the same qualities and abilities pertaining to the domains of parenthood, intellect and morals are ascribed by writers to women as well as to men. There are two voices, however: a traditional, ideal voice and an individual, realistic voice. This creates a duality of representations of women, which recurs across literary genres and reflects a duality of mentality. How can we interpret the paradoxical information about Roman women given by the male-authored texts? How does this duality of mentality inform us about gender roles and gender hierarchy? This work analyses well-known, as well as overlooked, passages from the writings of Pliny the Younger, Tacitus, Suetonius, Quintilian, Statius, Martial and Juvenal and sheds new light on Roman views of women and their abilities, on the notions of private and public and on conjugal relationships. In the process, the famous sixth satire of Juvenal is revisited and its topic reassessed, providing further insights into the complex issues of gender roles, marriage and emotions. By contrasting representations of women across a broad spectrum of literary genres, this book provides consistent findings that have wide significance for the study of Latin literature and the social history of the late first and early second centuries." -- Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Introduction 1
- Dual discourse 3
- Same and other 4
- Beyond gender roles 8
- Representations 10
- The texts 12
- The women in the texts 17
- Chapter 2 Within the family 21
- Women as reproductive tools 21
- Men as genitors 29
- Sons taking after fathers 33
- Fathers' feelings 34
- Daughters taking after fathers 36
- Sons taking after mothers 41
- Chapter 3 Intellect 43
- Women's financial, legal and political capacities 46
- Women's intellectual abilities 51
- Women's intellectual achievements 56
- Chapter 4 Morals 59
- Vices 60
- Virtues 74
- Similarities and differences 83
- Chapter 5 Within the couple 87
- Wives' intellectual qualities 88
- Wives embarrassing husbands 93
- Subordination empowering wives 99
- The heart of the matter 107
- Chapter 6 Juvenal's satire 6 113
- Debated subject matter 114
- Topic reassessment 118
- Wives' sexuality 119
- Wives' authority 124
- Husbands' submissiveness 126
- Husbands' replacement 129
- Functioning of the relationship 132
- Chapter 7 Conclusion 151
- Fruitful paradoxes 153
- Homo sum 154
- Behind the words 159.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-181) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.
- ISBN:
- 3039119125
- 9783039119127
- OCLC:
- 852388635
- Publisher Number:
- 99955160376
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