Becoming a Woman and Mother in Greco-Roman Egypt Becoming a Woman and Mother in Greco-Roman Egypt
Medicine and the Body in Antiquity

Becoming a Woman and Mother in Greco-Roman Egypt

Women’s Bodies, Society and Domestic Space

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Publisher Description

How did Greco-Roman Egyptian society perceive women’s bodies and how did it acknowledge women’s reproductive functions? Detailing women’s lives in Greco-Roman Egypt this monograph examines understudied aspects of women's lives such as their coming of age, social and religious taboos of menstruation and birth rituals. It investigates medical, legal and religious aspects of women's reproduction, using both historical and archaeological sources, and shows how the social status of women and new-born children changed from the Dynastic to the Greco-Roman period.

Through a comparative and interdisciplinary study of the historical sources, papyri, artefacts and archaeological evidence, Becoming a Woman and Mother in Greco-Roman Egypt shows how Greek, Roman, Jewish and Near Eastern cultures impacted on the social perception of female puberty, childbirth and menstruation in Greco-Roman Egypt from the 3rd century B.C. to the 3rd century A.D.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2019
30 January
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
286
Pages
PUBLISHER
Taylor & Francis
SELLER
Taylor & Francis Group
SIZE
411
MB

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