Contents -- Preface -- Illustrations and charts -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Emily Hemelrijk and Greg Woolf. Introduction -- PART I. CIVIC ROLES -- Francesca Cenerini. The Role of Women as Municipal Matres -- Alison E. Cooley. Women beyond Rome: Trend-Setters or Dedicated Followers of Fashion? -- Werner Eck. Frauen als Teil der kaiserzeitlichen Gesellschaft: ihr Reflex in Inschriften Roms und der italischen Staedte -- Emily Hemelrijk. Female Munificence in the Cities of the Latin West -- Christian Witschel. The Public Presence of Women in the Cities of Roman North Africa - Two Case Studies: Thamugadi and Cuicul -- PART II. PARTICIPATION IN CULT -- John North. Gender and Cult in the Roman West: Mithras, Isis, Attis -- James Rives. Women and Animal Sacrifice in Public Life -- Wolfgang Spickermann. Women and the Cult of Magna Mater in the Western Provinces -- PART III. PUBLIC REPRESENTATION -- Glenys Davies. Honorific vs. Funerary Statues of Women: Essentially the Same or Fundamentally Different? -- Sheila Dillon. Portrait Statues of Women on the Island of Delos -- Mary Harlow. Dressed Women on the Streets of the Ancient City: What to Wear? -- Ursula Rothe. Whose Fashion? Men, Women and Roman Culture as Reflected in Dress in the Cities of the Roman North-West -- PART IV. ECONOMICS -- Rebecca Flemming. Gendering Medical Provision in the Cities of the Roman West -- Miriam J. Groen-Vallinga. Desperate Housewives? The Adaptive Family Economy and Female Participation in the Roman Urban Labour Market -- Claire Holleran. Women and Retail in Roman Italy -- Coen van Galen. Grain Distribution and Gender in the City of Rome -- PART V. MOBILITY -- Greg Woolf. Female Mobility in the Roman West -- Elizabeth M. Greene. Female Networks in Military Communities in the Roman West: A View from the Vindolanda Tablets.

Lien Foubert. Female Travellers in Roman Britain: Vibia Pacata and Julia Lucilla -- Index.