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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787770803321

Autore

Perry Matthew J. <1973->

Titolo

Gender, manumission, and the Roman freedwoman / / Matthew J. Perry, Assistant Professor of History, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2014

ISBN

1-139-89311-4

1-107-50270-5

1-107-50111-3

1-107-50653-0

1-107-51691-9

1-107-49716-7

1-107-50380-9

1-139-62885-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 269 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

306.3/62082

Soggetti

Enslaved women - Rome - History

Enslaved persons - Emancipation - Rome - History

Rome Social conditions

Rome History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Gender, sexuality, and the standing of female slaves -- Gender, labor, and the manumission of female slaves -- The patron-freedwoman relationship in Roman law -- The patron-freedwoman relationship in funerary inscriptions -- The slavish free woman and the citizen community.

Sommario/riassunto

Gender, Manumission, and the Roman Freedwoman examines the distinct problem posed by the manumission of female slaves in ancient Rome. The sexual identities of a female slave and a female citizen were fundamentally incompatible, as the former was principally defined by her sexual availability and the latter by her sexual integrity. Accordingly, those evaluating the manumission process needed to



reconcile a woman's experiences as a slave with the expectations and moral rigor required of the female citizen. The figure of the freedwoman - fictionalized and real - provides an extraordinary lens into the matter of how Romans understood, debated, and experienced the sheer magnitude of the transition from slave to citizen, the various social factors that impinged upon this process, and the community stakes in the institution of manumission.