Women's lives, women's voices : Roman material culture and female agency in the Bay of Naples

Körperschaft: ProQuest (Firm)
Weitere Verfasser: Longfellow, Brenda, 1973- , [HerausgeberIn]
Swetnam-Burland, Molly , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021].
Ausgabe: First edition.
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white, and colour.
Schlagworte:
Parallelausgabe: Women's lives, women's voices (Print version) | ISSN: 9781477323588
Online Zugang: Available online
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.