Gendering Roman Imperialism
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Brill (NL) |
| ISBN-13 | 9789004524774 |
| Total publications | 4 |
| Coverage period | 2022 - 2023 |
| Language | EN |
| Cited by | 3 |
| Impact factor | 0.5 |
| h-index | 1 |
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
Gendering 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…
Gendering the Funeral
This chapter focuses on public funerals held for aristocratic women during the Republican age and the transition to the early Empire. Through close readings of the literary testimony, I will analyse aspects of the history, appearance, contents, form, meaning and function of the female public funeral. I will argue that the Romans started to hold public funerals for their elite women much earlier than is often assumed and that such ceremonies forme…
Conquest and Continence
This paper examines discourses around male sexuality from the Middle Republic (c.300–100 BCE), arguing that sexual restraint was an ideal for Roman men even as imperial expansion offered new temptations abroad and triggered new anxieties at home. While the integrity of endogamous marriages was critical to the aristocratic political class, elite behavior was further constrained by public opinion and the Roman electorate
Gendering the Roman Triumph
This chapter re-evaluates the relationships among elite women and the triumph in the Republic and early Empire (509 BCE–47 CE), demonstrating that during the Republic female relatives of triumphal generals were associated with and integrated into the triumph via the triumphal chariot, ancestor masks, funerals, and names, and that these associations continued and grew in the early Empire to encompass imperial innovations. We show that during the R…
Gendering 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…
Gendering the Funeral
This chapter focuses on public funerals held for aristocratic women during the Republican age and the transition to the early Empire. Through close readings of the literary testimony, I will analyse aspects of the history, appearance, contents, form, meaning and function of the female public funeral. I will argue that the Romans started to hold public funerals for their elite women much earlier than is often assumed and that such ceremonies forme…
Conquest and Continence
This paper examines discourses around male sexuality from the Middle Republic (c.300–100 BCE), arguing that sexual restraint was an ideal for Roman men even as imperial expansion offered new temptations abroad and triggered new anxieties at home. While the integrity of endogamous marriages was critical to the aristocratic political class, elite behavior was further constrained by public opinion and the Roman electorate
Gendering the Roman Triumph
This chapter re-evaluates the relationships among elite women and the triumph in the Republic and early Empire (509 BCE–47 CE), demonstrating that during the Republic female relatives of triumphal generals were associated with and integrated into the triumph via the triumphal chariot, ancestor masks, funerals, and names, and that these associations continued and grew in the early Empire to encompass imperial innovations. We show that during the R…
Gendering 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…