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Gender, Manumission, and the Roman Freedwoman

Gender, Manumission, and the Roman Freedwoman

Perry, Matthew J.

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Ancient History GeneralGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1107697638
ISBN13: 9781107697638
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 6 2018
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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