Women in ancient Egypt : revisiting power, agency, and autonomy /
"There has been considerable scholarship in the last fifty years on the role of ancient Egyptian women in society. With their ability to work outside the home, inherit and dispense of property, initiate divorce, testify in court, and serve in local government, Egyptian women exercised more lega...
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Language: English
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Cairo : New York :
The American University in Cairo Press,
2022.
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Call Number: HQ1137 .E3 W67
Table of Contents:
- Foreword : women in ancient Egypt : current research & historical trends /
- Fayza Haikal
- Moving beyond gender bias /
- Miriam F. Ayad
- The earliest evidence.
- Early Dynastic women : the written evidence /
- Eva-Maria Engel
- Royal women : expressions of power & influence.
- Setibhor : soliving the puzzle of Djedkare's queen / Hana Vymazalová
- Elevated or diminished? : questions regarding Middle Kingdom royal women /
- Isabel Stünkel
- Egyptianizing female sphinxes in the Mediterranean during the Middle Bronze Age /
- Yasmin El-Shazly
- An intriguing feminine figure in the Royal Cachette Wadi : new findings from C2 Project /
- Inmaculada Vivas Sainz and José Ramón Pérez-Accino Picatoste
- The role of Amunet during the reign of Hatshepsut /
- Katarzyna Kapiec
- Violence and piety in context : the example of Nefertiti /
- Jacquelyn Williamson
- Arsinoe II and Berenike II : Ptolemaic vanguards of queenly political power /
- Tara Sewell-Lasater
- Non-royal women : legal and economic aspects.
- Women in the economic domain : Dynasties 1-6 /
- Susan Anne Kelly
- Ostentation in Old Kingdom female tombs : between iconographic conventions and gendered adaptations /
- Romane Betbeze
- The h̲nr.wt : the unsuspected women's religious implication /
- Izold Guegan
- Patterns on change and disclosures of difference : non-royal women in New Kingdom Egypt /
- Reinart Skumsnes
- The women of Deir el-Medina in the Ramesside period : current state of research and future perspectives /
- Kathrin Gabler
- Some remarks on the shabti corpus of Iyneferty /
- Rahel Glanzmann
- Some notes on the question of the feminine identity at the beginning of the 21st Dynasty in the funerary literature /
- Annik Wüthrich
- Role and status of women in elite family networks of Late Period Thebes : the wives of Montuemhat /
- Anke Ilona Blöbaum
- Women's participation as contracting parties and ownership rights as recorded in Demotic documentation for money from Ptolemaic Upper Egypt : a case study of change? /
- Renate Fellinger
- Women in Demotic (documentary) texts /
- Janet H. Johnson
- Shoes, sickness, and sisters : the (in)visibility of Christian women from late antique Oxyrhynchus /
- AnneMarie Luijendijk
- The female body.
- Women's intimacy : blood, milk, and secretion in the gynecologicla papyri of ancient Egypt /
- Clémentine Audouit
- Women's health issues as seen in Theban Tomb 16 /
- Suzanne Onstine
- Possible functions of tattooing in ancient Egypt /
- Anne Austin.