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Pandora's Daughters: The Role and Status of Women in Greek and Roman Antiquity
Contributor(s): Cantarella, Eva (Author), Lefkowitz, Mary R. (Foreword by), Fant, Maureen B. (Translator)
ISBN: 080183385X     ISBN-13: 9780801833854
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
OUR PRICE:   $30.40  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: December 1986
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Annotation: Expanded and updated for this English-language translation, this book offers the first history of women in ancient Greece and Rome to be written from a legal perspective. Cantarella demonstrates how literary, anecdotal. and judicial sources can and cannot be used to discover that Greek and Roman men thought about women.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory
- History | Ancient - Greece
Dewey: 305.420
LCCN: 86007292
Series: Ancient Society and History
Physical Information: 0.57" H x 5.58" W x 8.4" (0.72 lbs) 248 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region - Greece
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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Expanded and updated for this English-language translation, this book offers the first history of women in ancient Greece and Rome to be written from a legal perspective. Cantarella demonstrates how literary, anecdotal. and judicial sources can and cannot be used to discover that Greek and Roman men thought about women.