Women of the Past, Issues for the Present

Nina Javette Koefoed, Rubina Raja (eds). Pages: 242 p. Illustrations:22 b/w, 10 col., 13 tables b/w. Language(s):English. Publication Year:2024. Brepols. ISBN: 978-2-503-60947-8. Paperback --- SUMMARY The roles played by women in history, and even the very idea of what it is to be female, have always been in flux, changing over centuries, between cultures, and in response to diverse social and economic parameters. Even today, women’s roles and women’s rights continue to face changes and pressures. In establishing the series Women of the Past: Testimonies from Archaeology and History, the ambition is to build on the profound theoretical and empirical developments that have taken place over the last fifty years of gender-focused research and to explore them in a contemporary context. The aim of this series is to shed light on not just the outstanding and extraordinary women who were trendsetters of their time, but also the not quite so outstanding women, often overshadowed by outstanding men, and the ordinary women, those who simply went about their everyday life and kept their world turning in their own quiet way. This edited volume, Women of the Past, Issues for the Present, is the inaugural volume of the series and shows the wide span of the series chronologically, geographically, and socially in terms of the research presented. From Roman slaves to Viking women, and from medieval wet-nurses to the nineteenth-century wives who supported their archaeologist husbands on excavation, this groundbreaking volume opens a new vista in our understanding of the past. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Nina Javette Koefoed and Rubina Raja Women of the Past, Issues for the Present Lien Foubert 1. Gendered Mobility in the Ancient Mediterranean Getting Rid of Faceless and Sexless Crowds Trine Arlund Hass and Sine Grove Saxkjær 2. Daughter of Caesar, Wife of Pompey The Role and Narratives of Julia Caesaris Nathanael Andrade 3. The Trafficking of the Enslaved Women and Children in the Legal Documents from the Roman Empire Alexandra Sanmark 4. An Examination of the Concepts of Sex and Gender and their Application to Viking-Age and Old Norse Society Jonas Lindström and Karin Hassan Jansson 5. Wet-Nurses and Verbs Methodological Experiences of Studying Gender and Work in Early Modern Europe Anne Montenach 6. Women in Trade: Female Advertisers in Eighteenth-Century French Provincial Towns Deborah Simonton 7. Working Girls: Girlhood, Mobility, and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Europe Kristine Dyrmann 8. Elite Women’s Spaces and Practices of Letter-Writing in Late Eighteenth-Century Denmark Birgitte Possing 9. Will, Wisdom, Values, Life’s Works, and Networks Karen Gram-Skjoldager 10. Gabriele Rohde and the Transformation of Mid-Twentieth-Century Diplomacy Rubina Raja 11. ‘This Is a Man’s World’ Women Working in Jerash in the Early Twentieth Century and Some Notes on the Societal Contextualization of Research Interest Development Index.…