Resumen de Roman Girlhood and the Fashioning of Femininity by Lauren Caldwell (review)
According to Artemidorus, a girl of ten was a “sexual being” (107). Many of the dilemmas girls and women faced in the early empire resonate today: the stereotype of an educated woman as dangerous and unfeminine, expecting women to prevent their own sexual assault, the sexualization of girls, constraints on women’s control of their reproduction. In late antique and early Christian studies, not only scholars of women and gender but also scholars working on any men of the empire who wrote about, corresponded with, or had sexual relations with young women should read this book to gain a fuller context for their work.
