Women's Socioeconomic Status and Religious Leadership in Asia Minor
Subtitle: In the First Two Centuries C. E.
Publisher: 1517 Media
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781451469929
Subjects: Economics, sociological aspects; Economists
Description: Rethinking the socioeconomic status of women in the Roman world. Moving beyond discussions of patriarchy and prescribed "women's roles" in the Roman world - discussions that have relied too much on elite literary sources, in her view - Katherine Bain explores what inscriptional data from Asia Minor can tell us about the actual socioeconomic status of women in the first and second centuries C.E. Her findings suggest that women's leadership in social associations - and by implication in Jewish and Christian congregations as well - was even more frequent than has been imagined. -- Book Cover