Dressed Against the Law Sex Workers, Power, and Gender Defiance in Ancient Rome

What happens when clothing becomes a crime?In Dressed Against the Law, ancient Rome emerges not as a marble monument of order and virtue, but as a deeply anxious society obsessed with sex, status, appearance, and control. At the center of that obsession stood some of its most scrutinized and misunderstood figures: sex workers, whose bodies, dress, and public presence exposed the fragile boundaries...