Read Online Becoming A Woman And Mother In Greco-Roman Egypt: Womens Bodies, Society And Domestic Space Narrated By Ada Nifosi Formatted As Audio Books

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this one didnt wow me, but i found the detail it included was very interesting How did GrecoRoman Egyptian society perceive women's bodies and how did it acknowledge women's reproductive functions Detailing women's lives in GrecoRoman 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 newborn children changed from the Dynastic to the GrecoRoman period.


Through a comparative and interdisciplinary study of the historical sources, papyri, artefacts and archaeological evidence, Becoming a Woman and Mother in GrecoRoman Egypt shows how Greek, Roman, Jewish and Near Eastern cultures impacted on the social perception of female puberty, childbirth and menstruation in GrecoRoman Egypt from therd century B.
C. to therd century A, D. .