Gender Identities in Italy in the First Millennium BC

Papers from a conference held at the Institute of Classical Studies, London, in June 2006. Contents: 1) Where have all the men gone? Sex, Gender and Womens Studies (Ruth D. Whitehouse); 2) Gender identities and cultural identities in the pre-Roman Veneto (Kathryn Lomas); 3) Where are they hiding? The invisibility of the native women of Puglia in the fourth century bc (Edward Herring); 4) Warriors and weavers: sex and gender in Daunian stelae (Camilla Norman); 5) Expressions of gender through dress in Latial Iron Age mortuary contexts: the case of Osteria dellOsa (Lisa Cougle); 6) Textile tools and specialisation in Early Iron Age female burials (Margarita Gleba); 7) United in death: the changing image of Etruscan couples (Marjatta Nielsen); 8) Isnt s/he lovely? An investigation of androgyny in Etruscan art (Bridget Sandhoff ); 9) Gender Benders? (Larissa Bonfante); 10) Burning boats and building bridges: women and cult in Roman colonization (Fay Glinister); 11) Women and the Romanisation of Etruria(Vedia Izzet); 12) Ethnicity and the costume of the Roman bride (Karen K. Hersch); 13) Livia and the lex Voconia (Bronwyn Hopwood).

Edward Herring and Kathryn Lomas