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- Title
Building women's social capital in Late Antique Egypt: business owners and civic administrators.
- Authors
Kelley, Anna C.
- Abstract
Women as a social category have been the subject of numerous recent studies considering their lived experience in the Late Antique and Byzantine Mediterranean. However, their representation in the narrative sources continues to shape modern reconstructions of women's agency within their social and economic contexts, often with unsatisfactory results. Building on the twentieth-century sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's model of social capital, this article will use the documentary papyri from Egypt to suggest a paradigm in which the agency of individual women can be viewed and incorporated into micro-historical narratives of the patriarchal society of Late Antiquity.
- Subjects
EGYPT; BOURDIEU, Pierre, 1930-2002; ANTIQUES business; SOCIAL capital; SOCIAL context; SOCIOLOGISTS
- Publication
Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies, 2024, Vol 48, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0307-0131
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/byz.2023.38