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Quintus Aurelius Orcus wrote:Salvete
I'm just trowing my voice into this discussion but from what i know is what was said here before. Roman wome gradually saw their status changing in a good way but from what i know, this right was a privilige only the patrician and rich women gained. Others probably didn't have this. I think i read this in a book soemwhere about the every day life in ancient rome.
I will look for it tomorrow when i go to the library.
But i stay with what i said. This change was only for rich women.
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Sokarus Aurelius Orcus
If this was true, it would be different from almost every other case in history. It is usually the rich, upper-class women who have the most restricted lives, because they are all about "appearances". Think, for example, of the way aristocratic women are portrayed in England of the last few hundred years, versus how lower-class women are portrayed. Same thing in Imperial China and Japan, too.
Actually, though, now that I think about it, maybe it's more a matter of middle-class women... because the poor don't usually worry about such things, they are too busy working and playing, and the very wealthy of course can very often do as they please and flout any conventions they like... but the ones in the middle, the "Joneses", they are the ones who get stuck with convention (never mind that they are also partially responsible for its creation and perpetuation).
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