Perry, Matthew J., 1973-

Gender, manumission, and the Roman freedwoman / Matthew J. Perry, Assistant Professor of History, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City Univeristy of New York. - 1 online resource (281 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Gender, sexuality, and the standing of female slaves -- Gender, labor, and the manumission of female slaves -- The patron-freedwoman relationship in Roman law -- The patron-freedwoman relationship in funerary inscriptions -- The slavish free woman and the citizen community.

9781107503809


Women slaves--History.--Rome
Slaves--Emancipation--History.--Rome


Rome--Social conditions.
Rome--History.


Electronic books.

HT863 / .P47 2014

306.3/62082