Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-318) and index.
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.
Summary:
"Even though there has been increasing interest in women in antiquity generally and in the buried cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum specifically, much of the textual evidence is silent about them and much of the material culture is gender-neutral, leading to a continued silence about women's lives in this region. Even when women are considered, it tends to be elite women, who are nevertheless often seen through the eyes of their male counterparts. The editors of this volume have gathered together an outstanding collection of scholars to examine both elite and ordinary women's lives on the Bay of Naples before the eruption of Vesuvius devastated the region of Campania in 79 CE. Their goal is to consider how women from a range of social backgrounds engaged with the local community through families, businesses, and religion, and how they expressed their identities in the funerary realm"-- Provided by publisher.
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