Centres de Recerca de Catalunya (CERCA)
This paper argues that insufficient attention has been paid to the cultural construction of motherhood in ancient Greco-Roman societies. For this reason the author proposes an approach to the maternal care pro-vided by nurses in Roman elite families. This role was provided by women of low status who could obtain a certain social recognition. The paper argues that these women were responsible for the emotional wellbeing of children, which is the central core of motherhood. Effectively this meant that the biological mother pla-yed a secondary role in bringing up her children. As the author emphasized, this is a notable deviation from the conventional stereotypical relation between the mother and child presented in the idealized Roman texts.
Delgado Hervas, Ana 
2016-07-31
This chapter offers a reflection on the dominance of the concept of separate spheres in our approach to the study of ancient societies. This has meant the imposi-tion of a western gender perspective on archaeologi-cal and historical studies. In order to demonstrate the problems of this perspective, the paper uses evidence from western Phoenician households. In these con-texts we find evidence of the association between food preparation and craft production. For example, there appears to be a relationship between certain utensils, techniques, and activities used for food preparation and metallurgical production, which suggests that wo-men were implicated in these activities. The author argues that this evidence contradicts the conventional model of sexual division of labour, suggesting the participation of men, women and children in these tasks.
Spanish
90 - Archaeology. Prehistory
Dones -- Història -- Fins al 500; Dones -- Treball - Fins al 500
67-76 p.
Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica
Hic et nunc; 08
Delgado, A., & Picazo, M. (2016). Los trabajos de las mujeres en el mundo antiguo: cuidado y mantenimiento de la vida. Institut Català d'Arqueologia Clàssica. https://doi.org/10.51417/hicetnunc_08
Reconeixement-No comercial-Sense obra derivada 3.0
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