Sex Business and Marriage in Ancient Rome
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Roman "hospitality" business is covered in this book. Dr. DeFelice presents a new provocative understanding of the women who worked in Pompeii. Were they all prostitutes? What was the status of unmarried women in Roman society? What kind of marriages existed? You'll have to read to find out! This volume also has a complete up-to-date study of all known buildings in Pompeii devoted to the hospitality industry, making it a valuable classical reference work, and guidebook, for years to come. The goal of this work ROMAN HOSPITALITY is to solve important questions such as ... Just how many prostitutes were there in Pompeii? This work gives the facts about the role of women in Roman society! Click HERE to read sample chapters from this work!
MPM 6:
Roman Hospitality: The Professional Women of Pompeii
by Dr. John DeFelice
ISBN 0-9677201-7-6, $39.95 Cloth Bound
ISBN 0-9677201-8-4, $31.00 Paperback
Foreword
This next volume of Marco Polo Monographs explores the inns and tavern of Pompeii through the lense of gender studies. In an approach, not unlike my own study,
Archaeogender: Discussions in Gender's Material Culture (MPM2), Dr. John DeFelice deconstructs a tangled web of academic doubletalk concerning women involved with the hospitality business in Pompeii, and other Roman cities. As I sat editing this work on warm summer nights in Changchun, China, I could not help but think of comparisons with the contemporary hospitality industry in the modern Peoples' Republic. In the most exclusive sections of the city 'foot massage' parlors abound, and the elite of Chinese society regard them with suspicion ¨C equating the women (and men) who work in them as prostitutes. Indeed, the intimate contact of a massage may lend opportunity for sex related business arrangements to be made, but most clients are just there to get their feet rubbed. Bath houses, often decorated with classical Roman motifs, are also suspected as a haunt of prostitutes, but again the case is overstated. Incidentally, prostitution is a major hospitality business in modern China, as it probably was in ancient Rome, but you are more likely to be offered a prostitute in an elegant hotel even if your wife is with you, than on the street or in a little shop.
The Marco Polo Monographs series aims to highlight the best and most creative cross-cultural research in social sciences and humanities. Individual volumes in the series may be published in English, French and German as their primary language. Other languages may be considered in the future.
For future volumes, the editors of this series are looking for manuscripts demonstrating innovative and original approaches to academic inquiry. The purpose is to challenge specialists to tackle broader issues, often left to those with less knowledge, but a greater willingness to jump out on a limb. This current volume is an excellent case in point. The general goal is to combine in-depth scholarship with broadly based theories and methodologies. This series continues to look for creative cross-cultural research in the social sciences and humanities. The goal is to challenge specialists to tackle broader issues by combining in-depth scholarship with broadly based theories and methodologies.
Sheldon Lee Gosline
Series Editor
MPM 6:
Roman Hospitality: The Professional Women of Pompeii
by Dr. John DeFelice
ISBN 0-9677201-7-6, $39.95 Cloth Bound
ISBN 0-9677201-8-4, $31.00 Paperback
Foreword
This next volume of Marco Polo Monographs explores the inns and tavern of Pompeii through the lense of gender studies. In an approach, not unlike my own study,
Archaeogender: Discussions in Gender's Material Culture (MPM2), Dr. John DeFelice deconstructs a tangled web of academic doubletalk concerning women involved with the hospitality business in Pompeii, and other Roman cities. As I sat editing this work on warm summer nights in Changchun, China, I could not help but think of comparisons with the contemporary hospitality industry in the modern Peoples' Republic. In the most exclusive sections of the city 'foot massage' parlors abound, and the elite of Chinese society regard them with suspicion ¨C equating the women (and men) who work in them as prostitutes. Indeed, the intimate contact of a massage may lend opportunity for sex related business arrangements to be made, but most clients are just there to get their feet rubbed. Bath houses, often decorated with classical Roman motifs, are also suspected as a haunt of prostitutes, but again the case is overstated. Incidentally, prostitution is a major hospitality business in modern China, as it probably was in ancient Rome, but you are more likely to be offered a prostitute in an elegant hotel even if your wife is with you, than on the street or in a little shop.
The Marco Polo Monographs series aims to highlight the best and most creative cross-cultural research in social sciences and humanities. Individual volumes in the series may be published in English, French and German as their primary language. Other languages may be considered in the future.
For future volumes, the editors of this series are looking for manuscripts demonstrating innovative and original approaches to academic inquiry. The purpose is to challenge specialists to tackle broader issues, often left to those with less knowledge, but a greater willingness to jump out on a limb. This current volume is an excellent case in point. The general goal is to combine in-depth scholarship with broadly based theories and methodologies. This series continues to look for creative cross-cultural research in the social sciences and humanities. The goal is to challenge specialists to tackle broader issues by combining in-depth scholarship with broadly based theories and methodologies.
Sheldon Lee Gosline
Series Editor
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