ISBN:
9789004540774
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 314 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
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25 cm
Series Statement:
Impact of empire volume 45
Series Statement:
Impact of Empire
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Hug, Angela Fertility, ideology, and the cultural politics of reproduction at Rome
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Hug, Angela, 1979 - Fertility, ideology, and the cultural politics of reproduction at Rome
DDC:
304.6/3
Keywords:
Human reproduction Social aspects
;
Family size
;
Families
;
Women
;
Rome Population policy
Abstract:
"Roman women bore children not just for their husbands, but for the Roman state. This book is the first comprehensive study of the importance of fecunditas (human fertility) in Roman society, c. 100 BC - AD 300. Its focus is the cultural impact of fecunditas, from gendered assumptions about infertility, to the social capital children brought to a marriage, to the emperors' exploitation of fecunditas to build and preserve dynasties. Using a rich range of source material - literary, juristic, epigraphic, numismatic - never before collected, it explores how the Romans shaped fecunditas into an essential female virtue"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- The Place of Marriage and Children in Roman Society -- Gendering Fecunditas -- Exploiting Fecunditas -- Lacking Fecunditas: Overcoming Involuntary Childlessness -- Fecunditas and the State -- Fecunditas and the Imperial Family -- Conclusion.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-296) and index
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