This study discusses women's participation in civic life in the cities of Italy and the Latin-speaking provinces of the Roman Empire from the late first century BC to the late third century AD (roughly the Roman Principate). Excluding empresses and other women of the imperial family, it focuses on the civic roles of non-imperial women in Italian and provincial towns on the basis of a corpus of approximately 1,400 inscriptions and, to a lesser extent, honorific portrait statues.
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Front Matter /Emily Hemelrijk and Greg Woolf -- Introduction /Emily Hemelrijk and Greg Woolf -- The Role of Women as Municipal Matres /Francesca Cenerini -- Women beyond Rome: Trend-Setters or Dedicated Followers of Fashion? /Alison E. Cooley -- Frauen als Teil der kaiserzeitlichen Gesellschaft: ihr Reflex in Inschriften Roms und der italischen Städte /Werner Eck -- Female Munificence in the Cities of the Latin West /Emily Hemelrijk -- The Public Presence of Women in the Cities of Roman North Africa. Two Case Studies: Thamugadi and Cuicul /Christian Witschel -- Gender and Cult in the Roman West: Mithras, Isis, Attis /John North -- Women and Animal Sacrifice in Public Life /James Rives -- Women and the Cult of Magna Mater in the Western Provinces /Wolfgang Spickermann -- Honorific vs. Funerary Statues of Women: Essentially the Same or Fundamentally Different? /Glenys Davies -- Portrait Statues of Women on the Island of Delos /Sheila Dillon -- Dressed Women on the Streets of the Ancient City: What to Wear? /Mary Harlow -- Whose Fashion? Men, Women and Roman Culture as Reflected in Dress in the Cities of the Roman North-West /Ursula Rothe -- Gendering Medical Provision in the Cities of the Roman West /Rebecca Flemming -- Desperate Housewives? The Adaptive Family Economy and Female Participation in the Roman Urban Labour Market /Miriam J. Groen-Vallinga -- Women and Retail in Roman Italy /Claire Holleran -- Grain Distribution and Gender in the City of Rome /Coen van Galen -- Female Mobility in the Roman West /Greg Woolf -- Female Networks in Military Communities in the Roman West: A View from the Vindolanda Tablets /Elizabeth M. Greene -- Female Travellers in Roman Britain: Vibia Pacata and Julia Lucilla /Lien Foubert -- Index /Emily Hemelrijk and Greg Woolf.
