Women's socioeconomic status and religious leadership in Asia Minor in the first two centuries C.E. /

Women's socioeconomic status and religious leadership in Asia Minor in the first two centuries C.E. /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Bain, Katherine, author.
Imprint:	Minneapolis : Fortress, [2014]
Description:	xiii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Emerging scholars Emerging scholars.
Subject:	Women -- Rome -- History -- To 500. Women. Rome (Empire) History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10072562

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ISBN:	9781451469929 1451469926
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-199) and indexes.
Summary:	Rethinking the socioeconomic status of women in the Roman world. Moving beyond discussions of patriarchy and prescribed "women's roles" in the Roman world - discussions that have relied too much on elite literary sources, in her view - Katherine Bain explores what inscriptional data from Asia Minor can tell us about the actual socioeconomic status of women in the first and second centuries C.E. Her findings suggest that women's leadership in social associations - and by implication in Jewish and Christian congregations as well - was even more frequent than has been imagined. -- Book Cover

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Abbreviations of Inscriptional Sources
Introduction
1. Gender and Status
2. Wealthy Women and Household Status
3. Women Patrons
4. Slave Women
5. Conclusion: Socioeconomic Religious Status
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Ancient Sources