Pomeroy 1975 began a generation of prolific and varied scholarship on women in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Dixon 2001 provides a valuable review of such work, and explicitly addresses ‘‘readings’’ in her exploration of ‘‘sources, genres and real life.’’ The influence of feminist thought is discussed in McManus 1997 and Doherty 2001. The latter provides a succinct comment on gender and myth in the light of modern theory.
A series of Roman Family books began with Rawson 1986 and has continued with B. Rawson 1991, Rawson and Weaver 1997, and George 2005. Other work during this period, on family and related topics, includes Bradley 1991, Dixon 1992, Gardner 1998, Parkin 1992, 2003, Saller 1994, and Treggiari 1991, which contain further references. Excellent studies of Roman law include Gardner 1986, 1998, Champlin 1991 (on inheritance), and Treggiari 1991 (on marriage). McGinn 1998 focuses on legal aspects of prostitution but encompasses many aspects of sexuality and status. Parkin 1992, 2003 draws out many of the implications for women of the new demographic work. See Cokayne 2003 for emotional aspects of old age. On women in jobs, Kampen 1981 provides a valuable insight into the economy and ideology of working women, although all her material (visual and written) is imperial. Evans 1991 provides useful appendices of republican evidence for women in jobs. Most of the work on domestic space and on art (public and private) deals with postrepublican material, and there are few visual representations of women in the Republic. But the Etruscan art discussed by Bonfante 1994 must have been known to Romans. And Clarke 1998 points out that Hellenistic art and artifacts depicting various scenes of love-making were in wide use and widely visible. Cf. Clarke 2003. Richlin 1983 remains a significant study of the sexual representation of bodies in Latin literature.
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