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Becoming a woman and mother in Greco-Roman Egypt : women's bodies, society and domestic space /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nifosì, Ada (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2019]
Series:Medicine and the body in antiquity.
Subjects:
Women > history.
Mothers > history.
History, Ancient.
Reproduction.
Greek World.
Roman World.
Egypt, Ancient.
Women > Egypt > History > To 1500.
Egypt > Social life and customs > Greco-Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D.
Table of Contents:
  • Women's social status in Greco-Roman Egypt
  • The role of midwives in dynastic and Greco-Roman Egypt
  • Childbirth and domestic cults in Greco-Roman Egypt
  • The liminal status of the unborn and the newborn child in Greco-Roman Egypt
  • Pollution and purification in women's reproduction
  • Childbirth, menstruation and domestic space in Greco-Roman Egypt.