Fertility, ideology, and the cultural politics of reproduction at Rome / by Angela Hug.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hug, Angela, 1979- author.

Series:

Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C.-A.D. 476) (Series) ; 45.

Impact of empire, 1572-0500 ; volume 45

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human reproduction--Social aspects--Rome.

Human reproduction.

Family size--Rome.

Family size.

Families--Rome.

Families.

Women--Rome.

Women.

Rome--Population policy.

Rome.

Human reproduction--Social aspects.

Population policy.

Rome (Empire).

Physical Description:

xiii, 314 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Summary:

"Roman women bore children not just for their husbands, but for the Roman state. This book is the first comprehensive study of the importance of fecunditas (human fertility) in Roman society, c. 100 BC - AD 300. Its focus is the cultural impact of fecunditas, from gendered assumptions about infertility, to the social capital children brought to a marriage, to the emperors' exploitation of fecunditas to build and preserve dynasties. Using a rich range of source material - literary, juristic, epigraphic, numismatic - never before collected, it explores how the Romans shaped fecunditas into an essential female virtue"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

The Place of Marriage and Children in Roman Society

Gendering Fecunditas

Exploiting Fecunditas

Lacking Fecunditas: Overcoming Involuntary Childlessness

Fecunditas and the State

Fecunditas and the Imperial Family

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Hug, Angela. Fertility, ideology, and the cultural politics of reproduction at Rome

ISBN:

9789004540774

9004540776

OCLC:

1369573489