Becoming a woman and mother in Greco-Roman Egypt: women's bodies, society and domestic space

In: Medicine and the body in antiquity

Abstract

Ethnicity, gender and class in Greco-Roman Egypt -- Women's social status in Greco-Roman Egypt -- The role of midwives in dynastic and Greco-Roman Egypt -- Childbirth and domestic cults in Greco-Roman Egypt -- The liminal status of the unborn and the newborn child in Greco-Roman Egypt -- Pollution and purification in women's reproduction -- Childbirth, menstruation and domestic space in Greco-Roman Egypt