Event

Speaker: Claire Taylor, Professor & John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Chair of Ancient Greek History, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Abstract: Where are the women in the study of ancient economies? Their relative invisibility can only be partially explained by the surviving sources given that the last 50 years has seen a great deal of work on women and gender in other fields of ancient history. Routinely in accounts of ancient economies women’s experience is either ignored or viewed in limited terms and economic actors conceptualized as being male by default. This talk argues that through the employment of a feminist theoretical framework we can suggest new ways to consider multiple aspects of ancient economies.