It takes the average reader 4 hours and 42 minutes to read Gender, Manumission, and the Roman Freedwoman by Matthew J. Perry
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
This book explores the institution of manumission-the freeing of slaves-in ancient Rome from a gendered perspective. Rome was unique among ancient polities in that it bestowed freed slaves with full citizenship, granting them rights nearly equal to those of freeborn individuals. The sexual identities of a female slave and a female citizen were fundamentally incompatible, as the former was principally defined by her sexual availability and the latter by her sexual integrity. Accordingly, those evaluating the manumission process needed to reconcile a woman's experiences as a slave with the...
Gender, Manumission, and the Roman Freedwoman by Matthew J. Perry is 281 pages long, and a total of 70,531 words.
This makes it 95% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 25 minutes to read Gender, Manumission, and the Roman Freedwoman aloud.
Gender, Manumission, and the Roman Freedwoman is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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