Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome / Edition 2

by Thomas A. J. McGinn

Overview

This is a study of the legal rules affecting the practice of female prostitution at Rome approximately from 200 B.C. to A.D. 250. It examines the formation and precise content of the legal norms developed for prostitution and those engaged in this profession, with close attention to their social context. McGinn's unique study explores the "fit" between the law-system and the socio-economic reality while shedding light on important questions concerning marginal groups, marriage, sexual behavior, the family, slavery, and citizen status, particularly that of women.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195161328
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/30/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	436
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Vanderbilt University

Table of Contents

Dedication Page.Preface.Chapter One: Introduction.1. Design of the Book.2. Law in Society.3. Problems of Non-Legal Evidence.4. Honor and Shame.5. Marginal Status.6. Defining Prostition.7. Prostitution, Sexuality and the Law.Chapter Two: Civic Disabilities: The Status of Prostitutes and Pimps as Roman Citizens.1. Women and Citizenship.2. Religious, Political, and Civic Disabilities Imposed on Prostitutes and Pimps.3. Disabilities at Law.4. The Core of Infamia and the Community of Honor.Chapter Three: The Lex Iulia et Papia.1. The Statute.2. Marriage with Prostitutes Before Augustus.3. The Terms of the Lex Iulia et Papia Regarding Marriage with Practitioners of Prostitution.4. Conclusion: Marriage Practice and Possibilities.Chapter Four: Emporors, Jurists, and the Lex Iulia et Papia.1. Introduction.2. Subsequent Legislation.3. Juristic Interpretation.Chapter Five: The Lex Iulia de Adulteriis Coercendis.1. The Statute.2. The Status of Mater Familias.3. The Adultera as Prostitute.4. Lenocinium.5. Exemptions.6. Pimps, Prostitutes and the Ius Occidendi.7. Social Policy and the Lex Iulia on Adultery.Chapter Six: Emperors, Jurists, and the Lex Iulia de Adulteriis Coercendis.1. Introduction.2. Subsequent Legislation.3. Juristic Interpretation.4. Conclusion: The Law on Adultery and the Policy-making Elite.Chapter Seven: The Taxation of Roman Prostitutes.1. Introduction.2. The Evidence for Caligula's Introduction of the Tax.3. Caligula's Motives for Introducing the Tax.4. Methods of Collection.5. The Rate of the Tax.6. Criticism of the Tax.7. Fictional Criticism and Later History of the Tax.8. Two Special Cases: Egypt and Palmyra.9. Conclusion.Chapter Eight: Ne Serva Prostituatur: Restrictive Covenants in the Sale of Slaves.1. Introduction.2. Four Covenants.3. Migration and Manumission.4. Ne Serva Prostituatur: History.5. Ne Serva and Prostitution.6. Ne Serva and Slavery.7. Honor and Shame.8. Conclusion.Chapter Nine: Introduction to Prostitution and the Law of the Jurists.1. Introduction.2. Damaged Goods: Fiducia/Pledge.3. Good Money After Bad: Inheritance, Mandate, and Usucapio on Sale.4. An Honest Day's Wage: Condictio.5. Coveting Thy Neighbor's Harlot: Theft and Wrongful Appropriation of Slave Prostitutes.6. All Honorable Men: The Petitio Hereditatis, Compromissum, and Operae.7. Sexual Harassment: Injuria.8. Diamonds Are Forever: Donatio.Chapter Ten: Conclusion.1. Summary of Findings.2. Prostition and the Law.3. Public Policy.4. Society and the Law.5. Unity in Diversity.

Editorial Reviews

"McGinn's greatest contribution is his discussion of critical methodologies and his insistence on looking at the fullest social and political contexts within which prostitution existed."—Choice

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