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001 2014001043
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008 140314s2014 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014001043
020 $a9780415737869 (hardback)
020 $z9781315817774 (ebook)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
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050 00 $aHQ1134$b.K46 2014
082 00 $a305.40938/5$223
084 $aHIS002010$aHIS054000$aHIS052000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aKennedy, Rebecca Futo,$d1974-
245 10 $aImmigrant women in Athens :$bgender, ethnicity, and citizenship in the classical city /$cRebecca Futo Kennedy.
264 1 $aNew York :$bRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group,$c2014.
300 $a177 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aRoutledge studies in ancient history ;$v6
520 2 $a"Many of the women whose names are known to history from Classical Athens were metics or immigrants, linked in the literature with assumptions of being 'sexually exploitable.' Despite recent scholarship on women in Athens beyond notions of the 'citizen wife' and the 'common prostitute,' the scholarship on women, both citizen and foreign, is focused almost exclusively on women in the reproductive and sexual economy of the city. This book examines the position of metic women in Classical Athens, to understand the social and economic role of metic women in the city, beyond the sexual labor market. This book contributes to two important aspects of the history of life in 5th century Athens: it explores our knowledge of metics, a little-researched group, and contributes to the study if women in antiquity, which has traditionally divided women socially between citizen-wives and everyone else. This tradition has wrongly situated metic women, because they could not legally be wives, as some variety of whores. Author Rebecca Kennedy critiques the traditional approach to the study of women through an examination of primary literature on non-citizen women in the Classical period. She then constructs new approaches to the study of metic women in Classical Athens that fit the evidence and open up further paths for exploration. This leading-edge volume advances the study of women beyond their sexual status and breaks down the ideological constraints that both Victorians and feminist scholars reacting to them have historically relied upon throughout the study of women in antiquity"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 163-171) and index.
505 0 $aMetic Women, Citizenship, and Marriage in Athenian Law -- The Ideology of the Metic Woman -- Aspasia, Athenian Citizen Elites, and the Myth of the Courtesan -- The Dangers of the Big City -- Working Women, not "Working Girls."
650 0 $aWomen$zGreece$zAthens$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aWomen immigrants$zGreece$zAthens$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aWomen immigrants$zGreece$zAthens$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aWomen immigrants$zGreece$zAthens$xEconomic conditions.
650 0 $aSex role$zGreece$zAthens$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aEthnicity$zGreece$zAthens$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aCitizenship$zGreece$zAthens$xHistory$yTo 1500.
651 0 $aAthens (Greece)$xHistory.
651 0 $aAthens (Greece)$xSocial conditions.
651 0 $aGreece$xHistory$yTo 146 B.C.
650 7 $aHISTORY / Ancient / Greece.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Social History.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Historical Geography.$2bisacsh