From daughter to mother: How a girl became a women in Ancient Rome Cover Image

Od córki do matki — jak dziewczynka stawała się kobietą w starożytnym Rzymie [Rec. Anna Tatarkiewicz: „Mater in statu nascendi. Społeczne i medyczne aspekty zdrowia reprodukcyjnego kobiet w starożytnym Rzymie”. Poznań 2018]
From daughter to mother: How a girl became a women in Ancient Rome

[Rev. Anna Tatarkiewicz: „Mater in statu nascendi. Społeczne i medyczne aspekty zdrowia reprodukcyjnego kobiet w starożytnym Rzymie”]

Author(s): Joanna Marciniszyn
Subject(s): History, Social history, Gender history, Ancient World, Book-Review
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: herstory; the woman of Ancient Rome; fertility; parenthood

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this review is a study by Anna Tatarkiewicz devoted to the woman becoming mother in Ancient Rome. It delves into such aspects of lives and functioning of women in Ancient Rome as: the birth of a baby girl, her later wedding, pregnancy period, biologically giving birth, and dies lustricus, that is, acknowledging the social fact of childbirth by law, which equalled a mother being born symbolically.

  • Issue Year: 20/2020
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 153-158
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Polish