Suzanne Dixon

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Suzanne Dixon (born 1946)[1] is an Australian classical scholar, widely recognised as an authority on women's history and particularly marriage and motherhood.[2][3]

Career

Dixon's career spans posts at the

gender politics.[7] Her 1992 monograph 'The Roman Family' is credited with being one of the key texts in the field.[8]

She is currently without an academic post, but continues writing about the ancient world in a freelance capacity,

Roman marriage in The Wiley Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds.[10]

Personal life

Dixon lives on an island in Moreton Bay, off the coast of South Queensland, Australia.[11]

Publications

Articles

  • 'Infirmitas Sexus: Womanly Weakness in Roman Law', Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis / Revue d'Histoire du Droit / The Legal History Review, 1984, Vol.52(4), pp. 343–371
  • 'Breaking the law to do the right thing: the gradual erosion of the Voconian Law in ancient Rome', Adelaide Law Review, May, 1985, Vol.9(4), p. 519-534
  • 'Polybius on Roman Women and Property', The American Journal of Philology, 1 July 1985, Vol.106(2), pp. 147–170
  • 'Gracious Patrons and Vulgar Success Stories in Roman Public Media', Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Supplementary Volumes, 1 January 2008, Vol.7, pp. 57–68

Monographs

  • The Roman Mother (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987)[12]
  • The Roman Family (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992)
  • Reading Roman women (London: Duckworth, 2001)
  • Cornelia: mother of the Gracchi (London: Routledge, 2007)

Edited collections

  • Stereotypes of women in power : historical perspectives and revisionist views. Edited by Barbara Garlick, Suzanne Dixon, and Pauline Allen (Newport: Greenwood, 1992)
  • Childhood, class and kin in the Roman world. Edited by Suzanne Dixon (London: Routledge, 2001)

Book chapters

  • 'Family Finances: Terentia and Tullia', in: The Family in Ancient Rome: New Perspectives. Edited by Beryl Rawon (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987)
  • 'Exemplary housewife or luxurious slut: cultural representations of women in the Roman economy', in: Women's influence on classical civilization. Edited by Fiona McHardy and Eireann Marshall (London: Routledge, 2004)
  • 'Family', in: The Oxford handbook of Roman law and society. Edited by Paul J. du Plessis, Clifford Ando, and Kaius Tuori (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016)

References

  1. ^ "Dixon, Suzanne". VIAF. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
  2. ^ "Joan's Story: Race, Delusions and Contested Memories Joan E. Eatock, Delusions of Grandeur. A Family's Story of Love and Struggle (book review)" (PDF). Australian Women's Book Review. 16 (1): 21. 2004.
  3. doi:10.1093/obo/9780195389661-0080
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  4. ^ "Sexuality and the ancient world examined (seminar overview)". University of Queensland news page. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  5. ^ "Author Profile". Bloomsbury Publishing. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  6. ^ Dixon, Suzanne. "Roman Women: Following the Clues". BBC History. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  7. ISBN 9780472119257
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  8. doi:10.1093/obo/9780195389661-0080
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  9. ^ Dixon, Suzanne. "Roman Women: Following the Clues". BBC History. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  10. ISBN 9781444390766
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  11. ^ Dixon, Suzanne. "Roman Women: Following the Clues". BBC History. BBC.
  12. JSTOR 269591
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External links
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