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For more than fifty years the standard debates about Roman Imperialism were written more or less entirely in terms of male agency, male competition, and male participation. Not only have women been marginalized in these narratives as just so much collateral damage but there has been little engagement with gender history more widely, with the linkages between masculinity and warfare, with the representation of relations of power in terms of gender differentials, with the ways social reproduction entangled the production of gender and the production of empire. This volume explores how we might gender Roman Imperialism.
For more than fifty years the standard debates about Roman Imperialism were written more or less entirely in terms of male agency, male competition, and male participation. Not only have women been marginalized in these narratives as just so much collateral damage but there has been little engage...
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Hannah Cornwell, DPhil. (2013), is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Birmingham. She has published on the Roman concept of peace as an expression of imperialism, including Pax and the Politics of Peace: Republic to Principate (OUP, 2017), and also examines diplomatic culture in the Roman world.
Greg Woolf, Ph.D. (1990), is Ronald J. Mellor Professor of Ancient History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published on various aspects of Roman cultural history and archaeology and is currently completing a book on civilizational change in Rome.
Contributors are: Richard Alston, Lovisa Brännstedt, Lisa Pilar Eberle, Rebecca Flemming, Emily A. Hemelrijk, Sanna Joska, Alison Keith, Ida Östenberg, Louise Revell , Michael J. Taylor, Lewis Webb, Julia Wilker.
Greg Woolf, Ph.D. (1990), is Ronald J. Mellor Professor of Ancient History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published on various aspects of Roman cultural history and archaeology and is currently completing a book on civilizational change in Rome.
Contributors are: Richard Alston, Lovisa Brännstedt, Lisa Pilar Eberle, Rebecca Flemming, Emily A. Hemelrijk, Sanna Joska, Alison Keith, Ida Östenberg, Louise Revell , Michael J. Taylor, Lewis Webb, Julia Wilker.
Hannah Cornwell, DPhil. (2013), is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Birmingham. She has published on the Roman concept of peace as an expression of imperialism, including Pax and the Politics of Peace: Republic to Principate (OUP, 2017), and also examines diplomatic cul...
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