Immigrant Women in Athens av Rebecca Futo (Denison University USA) Kennedy

1949,-

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<P>Many of the women whose names are known to history from Classical Athens were <I>metic</I>s 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 <I>metic</I> women in Classical Athens, to understand the social and economic role of <I>metic</I> women in the city, beyond the sexual labor market. </P><P></P><P>This book contributes to two important aspects of the history of life in 5<SUP>th</SUP> century Athens: it explores our knowledge of <I>metics</I>, a little-researched group, and contributes to the study if women in antiquity, which has traditionally divided women socially between citizen-wives and everyone else. This tradition has wrongly situated <I>metic</