Selected Web Resources on Roman Matron

woman dating to the Augustan era, 25 BCE-25 CE (Getty Museum)
Bust of a Roman woman, first half of 1st century CE (Hermitage Museum)
funerary portrait of Flavian woman, 90-100 CE (Metropolitan Museum); another Flavian woman (Hermitage)
Antonine woman, 150-160 CE (Getty Museum); another Antonine woman (Hermitage)
portrait of Roman woman, early 4th century CE (Hermitage)
more portraits of Roman women (Kathryn Andrus)
Mummy portrait of a woman (J. Paul Getty Museum); additional Roman portraits from Egypt (World Art Treasures)
Sarcophagus of a Marriage Scene (Hermitage)

Barbara McManus shows what was fashionable in Roman Clothing: Women; view a slide show of reproductions of Roman clothing (Diotima); additional links to Roman clothing at the Costumer's Manifesto
Explore the different rooms and decorations in a typical Roman house (McManus)
A Taste of the Ancient World, an exhibit about Greco-Roman eating and drinking, farming and starving, presented by undergraduates in Classical Civilization 452: Food in the Ancient World (University of Michigan, Kelsey Museum)
Real Roman recipes (Nova: Secrets of Lost Empires); more recipes (Micaela Pantke)
Pedar Foss offers a description of the roles that men and women of all ages and classes play at Roman meals.
Juvenal describes the virtues a wife should (and shouldn't) have in Satire 6
Roman Life Expectancy lists statistics of infant mortality rates in ancient Rome.

Guardianship: Introduces the idea of patria potestas and the control the father had as the head of the family.
Consent as the basis of marriage: marriage exists because of the consent of the bride, groom, and their fathers.
The Julian Marriage Laws: These are laws, established by Augustus, concerning Roman marriage and adultery.
The Twelve Tables: Roman law set in 450 B.C. concerning paternal power, guardianship, ownership, possession, and sacred law.
The Right of Life or Death: The Roman laws on adultery and a father's power over his daughter if she is caught committing adultery.

Susan Martin's essay, The Women of Rome: Private Lives and Public Personae
Feminae Romanae, Women at Ancient Rome, by Suzanne Cross, is a nicely designed site that offers a wealth of information and images of Roman women; traces the growing independence of Roman women from Republic to Empire.
Ariana Traill's lecture notes on Roman women
David Noy's course notes for Roman women
Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
Lefkowitz and Fant, Women's Life in Greece and Rome, an extensive anthology of texts
Internet Women's History Sourcebook
Gender Studies page at the Voice of the Shuttle