Roman Wives, Roman Widows : The Appearance of New Women and the Pauline Communites

A specialist in early Christianity and the Graeco-Roman world, Winter (divinity, U. of Cambridge) finds in ancient literary, legal, and non-literary sources the appearance of a phenomenon that some historians have recently dubbed the new woman, as contrasted with the modest wife and widow. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)