Immigrant Women in Athens - Gender, Ethnicity, and Citizenship in the Classical City (Paperback)

Many of the women whose names are known to history from Classical Athens were metics or immigrants, linked in the literature with assumptions of being 'sexually exploitable.' Despite recent scholarship on women in Athens beyond notions of the 'citizen wife' and the 'common prostitute,' the scholarship on women, both citizen and foreign, is focused almost exclusively on women in the reproductive and sexual economy of the city. This book examines the position of metic women in Classical Athens, to understand the social and economic role of metic women in the city, beyond the sexual labor market. This book contributes to two important aspects of the history of life in 5th century Athens: it explores our knowledge of metics, a little-researched group, and contributes to the study if women in antiquity, which has traditionally divided women socially between citizen-wives and everyone else. This tradition has wrongly situated metic women, because they could not legally be wives, as some variety of whores. Author Rebecca Kennedy critiques the traditional approach to the study of women through an examination of primary literature on non-citizen women in the Classical period. She then constructs new approaches to the study of metic women in Classical Athens that fit the evidence and open up further paths for exploration. This leading-edge volume advances the study of women beyond their sexual status and breaks down the ideological constraints that both Victorians and feminist scholars reacting to them have historically relied upon throughout the study of women in antiquity.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies in Ancient History
Release date:	November 2016
First published:	2014
Authors:	Rebecca Futo Kennedy
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	178
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-20103-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Multicultural studies > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Promotions
LSN:	1-138-20103-0
Barcode:	9781138201033

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