Sexual Abuse and Sexual Rights

Cohen, Edward E.

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Bitchy ladies: domestic violence against ornatrices in Latin poetry—protest femininity, toxic femininity?

Johnson

2023

Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies

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In a revisionist historical environment in which scholars are increasingly invited to reconsider readings of classical texts from a philological perspective, or from an approach that privileges strict historicity, numerous interpretative possibilities present themselves. Working within such an environment, this study aims to delve into several literary expressions of domestic violence meted out to female slaves—explicitly, ornatrices—by female mistresses—particularly, elegiac dominae and satirical matronae—by combining the traditional methodologies of classical studies with theories of both protest femininity and toxic femininity. In so doing, it considers words and their meanings—notably the language of legalese as well as violence—and gender theories of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century—to read domestic violence among women as a cultural dynamic underpinned by patriarchal institutions that not only institutionalize the abuse of slaves but both initiate and permit it at the hands of disempowered females.

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Bitchy ladies: domestic violence against ornatrices in Latin poetry—protest femininity, toxic femininity?

Johnson

2023

Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies

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Roman Inequality

Cohen

2023

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This book explores how a small number of male and female slaves, and some free women, at Rome in the first and second centuries ce prospered in business amidst a population of generally impoverished free inhabitants and of impecunious enslaved residents. It focuses on two anomalies to which only minimal academic attention has been previously directed: (1) the paradox of a Roman economy dependent on enslaved entrepreneurs who operated, and sometimes achieved personal affluence, within a legal system that supposedly deprived unfree persons of all legal capacity and human rights; (2) the incongruity of the importance and accomplishments of Roman businesswomen, both free and slave, successfully functioning under legal rules that in many aspects discriminated against women, but in commercial matters were in principle gender-blind and in practice generated egalitarian juridical conditions that often trumped gender-discriminatory customs. Slaves’ acquisition of wealth was actually aided by a surprising preferential orientation of the legal system: Roman law—to modern Western eyes counterintuitively—privileged servile enterprise to the detriment of free enterprise. This volume also examines the casuistry through which Roman jurists created “legal fictions,” facilitating a commercial reality utterly incompatible with the fundamental precepts that legal experts (“jurisprudents”) continued explicitly to insist upon.

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2023

Roman Inequality

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Sexual Abuse and Sexual Rights

Cited by 12 publications

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Bitchy ladies: domestic violence against ornatrices in Latin poetry—protest femininity, toxic femininity?

Bitchy ladies: domestic violence against ornatrices in Latin poetry—protest femininity, toxic femininity?

Roman Inequality

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