Arguments with silence : writing the history of Roman women /
Richlin, Amy,1951-author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-394) and indexes.
Introduction : in search of Roman women -- Approaches to the sources on adultery in Rome -- Invective against women in Roman satire -- Julia's jokes, Galla Placidia, and the Roman use of women as political icons -- Sulpicia the satirist -- Reading Ovid's rapes -- Making up a woman : the face of Roman gender -- Carrying water in a sieve : class and the body in Roman women's religion -- Pliny's brassiere -- Emotional work : lamenting the Roman dead -- The ethnographer's dilemma and the dream of a lost golden age.
Feminism and literature
Women and literature
Sex role in literature.