Immigrant Women in Athens - 9780415737869

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Immigrant Women in AthensGender, Ethnicity, and Citizenship in the Classical City\nAuthor(s): Rebecca Futo Kennedy\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415737869, 978-0415737869\nSynopsis\nMany of the women whose names are known to history from Classical Athens were metics or immigrants, linked in the literature with assumptions of being ??sexually exploitable.?? Despite recent scholarship on women in Athens beyond notions of the ??citizen wife?? and the ??common prostitute,?? the scholarship on women, both citizen and foreign, is focused almost exclusively on women in the reproductive and sexual economy of the city. This book examines the position of metic women in Classical Athens, to understand the social and economic role of metic women in the city, beyond the sexual labor market. \n\nThis book contributes to two important aspects of the history of life in 5th century Athens: it explores our knowledge of metics, .