8 juin 2022
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Schmitt Pantel Pauline, « L’antiquité », Publications de l’École française de Rome, ID : 10.4000/books.efr.36052
The first volume of the Histoire des femmes en Occident, at the crossroad between history and anthropology, was conceived as the part of an ensemble and its aim was to understand the foundations of ways of thinking and values that the volumes on later periods would then develop and analyse. The first volume was organized in three sections, the first one discussed the female models in ancient Greece and Rom; the second one compared social rituals with women’s practices and the third one offered an historiographical overview of a women’s history that was becoming, at that time, a gender history of Antiquity. What has changed since then? First of all, the evolution of archaeological researches allows new interpretations of gender roles that question the alleged gendered separation of public and private spaces. Then the researches on the representations continue to propose new hypothesis on women’s and men’s cultures, for example in the studies on theatre and on mythology. Another very important topic still is the study of the body, and of sexual practises.