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Becoming a Woman and Mother in Greco-Roman Egypt: Women's Bodies, Society and Domestic Space (Medicine and the Body in Antiquity) by Ada Nifosi; Ada Nifosì is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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How did Greco-Roman Egyptian society perceive women’s bodies and how did it acknowledge women’s reproductive functions? Detailing women’s lives in Greco-Roman Egypt this monograph examines understudied aspects of women's lives such as their coming of age, social and religious taboos of menstruation and birth rituals. It investigates medical, legal and religious aspects of women's reproduction, using both historical and archaeological sources, and shows how the social status of women and new-born children changed from the Dynastic to the Greco-Roman period. Through a comparative and interdisciplinary study of the historical sources, papyri, artefacts and archaeological evidence, Becoming a Woman and Mother in Greco-Roman Egypt shows how Greek, Roman, Jewish and Near Eastern cultures impacted on the social perception of female puberty, childbirth and menstruation in Greco-Roman Egypt from the 3rd century B.C. to the 3rd century A.D.

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Author

Ada Nifosi; Ada Nifosì

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781351596145

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Medicine