Woman in the Mirror: The Rhetoric of Adornment in the Roman World

Abstract

Gender bias in archaeology / Lucia Nixon -- Women in ancient Egyptian wisdom literature / Annette Depla -- Notions of community and the exclusion of the female in Jewish history and historiography / Léonie J. Archer -- Problem of women philosophers in ancient Greece / Richard Hawley -- Ancient theory of gender : Plato and the Pythagorean table / Sabina Lovibond -- Producing woman : Hippocratic gynaecology / Helen King -- Social stereotypes and historical analysis : the case of the Imperial women at Rome / Susan Fischler -- Woman in the mirror : the rhetoric of adornment in the Roman world / Maria Wyke -- Early Christianity and the discourse of female desire / Averil Cameron -- Reading between the lines : Sarah and the sacrifice of Isaac (Genesis, chapter 22) / Sebastian Brock -- Public and private forms of religious commitment among Byzantine women / Judith Herrin -- Women in Anglo-Saxon poetry / Fiona Gameson -- Recycling ancient material : an orthodox view of Hindu women / Julia Leslie -- The witch and the wife : a comparative study of Theocritus, Idyll 2, Simonides, Idyll 15, and Fatal Attraction / Laura Gibbs-Wichrowska.