List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction / Hannah Cornwell and Greg Woolf -- The empire of women: how did Roman imperial rule affect the lives of women? / Emily Hemelrijk -- Gendering the funeral: public obsequies held for elite women in Rome / Ida Östenberg -- Gendering the Roman triumph: elite women and the triumph in the Republic and early Empire / Lewis Webb and Lovisa Brännstedt -- Gender formation in the formation of empire / Richard Alston -- Conquest and continence: Roman sexual politics at the dawn of empire / Michael J. Taylor -- The limits of cultural change? romanization and gender in the Roman West / Louise Revell -- Sociae et amicae populi Romani: women and the institution of client kingship / Julia Wilker -- Female patronage and the reuse of imperial iconography in the Antonine age / Sanna Joska -- Foreign silk on Roman bodies: gender, wealth and empire in the Metropole / Lisa Eberle -- Seruitium amoris: slavery and imperialism in Roman erotic elegy / Alison Keith -- Afterword: more gendering Roman imperialism / Rebecca Flemming -- Index.

For more than fifty years the standard debates about Roman Imperialism were written more or less entirely in terms of male agency, male competition, and male participation. Not only have women been marginalized in these narratives as just so much collateral damage but there has been little engagement with gender history more widely, with the linkages between masculinity and warfare, with the representation of relations of power in terms of gender differentials, with the ways social reproduction entangled the production of gender and the production of empire. This volume explores how we might gender Roman Imperialism