The publication of S. B. Pomeroy's book on women in the Greco-Roman world has meant a Copernican turn in the field of social history of classical antiquity and in the approach to the history of women as a historiographic problem. Until not long ago, the entire set of problems: economic, social, legal and ideological posed by the study of women in history, and more specifically in the History of Antiquity, were either not treated with the consideration that, without Without a doubt, they deserve, or were studied by different specialists within their respective fields of work. However, for some years now, and this book has contributed decisively to this process, the question has been raised again in radically different terms.

The study of women in History is currently carried out from a clearly feminist perspective, that is, regardless of the sex of each of the authors, most of them assume the idea that the study of this problem It is not possible if we do not start from the fact that women, as a sex, group or class - if you will - have been the passive subject of history and have been the object of various forms of oppression, and even exploitation. Raising awareness in relation to this problem allows us to perceive the situation of women in the contemporary world and, in this way, link the study of the past with the concerns of the present, just as the best among them have aspired to do. the historians.