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Women's lives, women's voices : Roman material culture and female agency in the Bay of Naples / edited by Brenda Longfellow and Molly Swetnam-Burland.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city).
- Women.
- Material culture.
- Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city).
- Women--Italy--Herculaneum (Extinct city).
- Italy--Herculaneum (Extinct city).
- Material culture--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city).
- Material culture--Italy--Herculaneum (Extinct city).
- Material culture--Italy--Naples, Bay of.
- Civilization, Classical.
- Italy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white, and colour
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction. Negotiating silence, finding voices, and articulating agency / Brenda Longfellow and Molly Swetnam-Burland
- Part I. Public and commercial identities
- Pompeian women and the making of a material history / Lauren Hackworth Petersen
- Women's work? investors, money-handlers, and dealers / Molly Swetnam-Burland
- From household to workshop: women, weaving, and the peculium / Lauren Caldwell
- Buying power: the public priestesses of Pompeii / Barbara Kellum
- Real estate for profit: Julia Felix's property and the Forum frieze / Eve D'Ambra
- Part II. Women on display
- Contextualizing the funerary and honorific portrait statues of women in Pompeii / Brenda Longfellow
- Portraits and patrons: the women of the Villa of the Mysteries in their social context / Elaine K. Gazda
- "What's in a name?" mapping women's names from the graffiti of Pompeii and Herculaneum / Erika Zimmermann Damer
- The public and private lives of Pompeian prostitutes / Sarah Levin-Richardson
- Part III. Representing women
- Women, art, power, and work in the House of the Chaste Lovers at Pompeii / Jennifer Trimble
- The House of the Triclinium (V.2.4) at Pompeii: the house of a "courtesan"? / Luciana Jacobelli
- Sex on display in Pompeii's tavern VII.7.18 / Jessica Powers
- Drawings of women at Pompeii / Margaret L. Laird
- Epilogue. The complexity of silence / Allison L. C. Emmerson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781477323595
- 1477323597
- Publisher Number:
- 40030861102
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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