IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 1306: Women and Gender in the Post-Roman Successor States, IV: North Africa & Conclusion

Organiser:	Eric Fournier, Department of History, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Moderator/Chair:	Robin Whelan, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge
Respondent:	Bonnie Effros, Department of History, University of Liverpool
Paper 1306-a	Constructing Gender and Social Identity in the Poetry of Vandal-Era Carthage (Language: English) Mark Lewis Tizzoni, Department of History, Angelo State University, Texas Index terms: Gender Studies, Social History, Women's Studies
Paper 1306-b	Women and Gender in Vandal Africa (Language: English) Eric Fournier, Department of History, West Chester University of Pennsylvania Index terms: Daily Life, Gender Studies, Social History, Women's Studies
Abstract	It is to address an important gap in current scholarship on women and gender in the post-Roman Western kingdoms that we present a series of panels on the theme of 'women and gender in the post-Roman kingdoms'. We are especially interested in a bottom-up perspective, to analyze the place, role, and experiences of women in the daily life of the period, and to think about how such an approach might alter our view of the social, cultural, and religious history of these kingdoms. Limited by our sources, however, we will also investigate the absence of women and gender concerns in our texts, and look for alternative fonts of knowledge, such as material culture, archaeology, epigraphy, and visual arts.