| dc.description.abstract | This bachelor thesis concerns itself with the living and working conditions of sex
workers, and sex worker slaves in ancient Rome. Combining historical, feminist, and
postcolonial theories; this paper looks at the way the Roman upper classes
expressed a certain ‘Cultural Hegemony’ over the ‘subaltern’ sex workers. This
thesis considers several aspects of the lives and work of sex workers: their places of
work, their pay, the laws that concern their profession, how they were identified and
how they prevented and dealt with unwanted pregnancies. Of these aspects, this
paper will consider how the upper classes could have had a negative impact on the
lives and working conditions of Roman sex workers, both directly and indirectly. | |
