Gendering Roman Imperialism

Hannah Cornwell, Greg Woolf (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

284 Seiten

2022
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-52476-7 (ISBN)

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Roman imperialism has historically been viewed as displays of masculine power and agency. This volume explores the intersection of imperialism and gender to deepen our understanding of systems of power to provide a gendered history of Roman imperialism.

For more than fifty years the standard debates about Roman Imperialism were written more or less entirely in terms of male agency, male competition, and male participation. Not only have women been marginalized in these narratives as just so much collateral damage but there has been little engagement with gender history more widely, with the linkages between masculinity and warfare, with the representation of relations of power in terms of gender differentials, with the ways social reproduction entangled the production of gender and the production of empire. This volume explores how we might gender Roman Imperialism.

Hannah Cornwell, DPhil. (2013), is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Birmingham. She has published on the Roman concept of peace as an expression of imperialism, including Pax and the Politics of Peace: Republic to Principate (OUP, 2017), and also examines diplomatic culture in the Roman world. Greg Woolf, Ph.D. (1990), is Ronald J. Mellor Professor of Ancient History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published on various aspects of Roman cultural history and archaeology and is currently completing a book on civilizational change in Rome. Contributors are: Richard Alston, Lovisa Brännstedt, Lisa Pilar Eberle, Rebecca Flemming, Emily A. Hemelrijk, Sanna Joska, Alison Keith, Ida Östenberg, Louise Revell , Michael J. Taylor, Lewis Webb, Julia Wilker.

4 Gender Formation in the Formation of Empire

Richard Alston

5 Conquest and Continence: Roman Sexual Politics at the Dawn of Empire

Michael J. Taylor

6 The Limits of Cultural Change? Romanization and Gender in the Roman West

Louise Revell

7 Sociae et amicae populi Romani: Women and the Institution of Client Kingship

Julia Wilker

8 Female Patronage and the Reuse of Imperial Iconography in the Antonine Age

Sanna Joska

9 Foreign Silk on Roman Bodies: Gender, Wealth and Empire in the Metropole

Lisa Eberle

10 Seruitium amoris: Slavery and Imperialism in Roman Erotic Elegy

Alison Keith

Afterword: More Gendering Roman Imperialism

Rebecca Flemming

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Erscheinungsdatum	18.11.2022
Reihe/Serie	Impact of Empire ; 43
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	597 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	90-04-52476-2 / 9004524762
ISBN-13	978-90-04-52476-7 / 9789004524767
Zustand	Neuware