UID:
edocfu_9961373738202883
Format:
1 online resource (523 pages)
ISBN:
1-64903-270-6
Content:
"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 legal rights and economic independence than their counterparts throughout antiquity. Yet, their agency and autonomy are often downplayed, undermined, or outright ignored. In Women in Ancient Egypt, twenty-four international scholars offer a corrective to this view by presenting the latest cutting-edge research on women and gender in ancient Egypt. Covering the entirety of Egyptian history, from earliest times to Late Antiquity, this volume commences with a thorough study of the earliest written evidence of Egyptian women, both royal and non-royal, before moving on to chapters that deal with various aspects of Egyptian queens, followed by studies on the legal status and economic roles of non-royal women and, finally, on women's health and body adornment. Within this sweeping chronological range, each study is intensely focused on the evidence recovered from a particular site or a specific time-period. Rather than following a strictly chronological arrangement, the thematic organization of chapters enables readers to discern diachronic patterns of continuity and change within each group of women."--
Note:
Foreword : women in ancient Egypt : current research & historical trends /
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Moving beyond gender bias /
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Early Dynastic women : the written evidence /
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Setibhor : soliving the puzzle of Djedkare's queen / Hana Vymazalová --
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Elevated or diminished? : questions regarding Middle Kingdom royal women /
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Egyptianizing female sphinxes in the Mediterranean during the Middle Bronze Age /
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An intriguing feminine figure in the Royal Cachette Wadi : new findings from C2 Project /
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The role of Amunet during the reign of Hatshepsut /
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Violence and piety in context : the example of Nefertiti /
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Arsinoe II and Berenike II : Ptolemaic vanguards of queenly political power /
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Women in the economic domain : Dynasties 1-6 /
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Ostentation in Old Kingdom female tombs : between iconographic conventions and gendered adaptations /
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The h̲nr.wt : the unsuspected women's religious implication /
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Patterns on change and disclosures of difference : non-royal women in New Kingdom Egypt /
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The women of Deir el-Medina in the Ramesside period : current state of research and future perspectives /
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Some remarks on the shabti corpus of Iyneferty /
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Some notes on the question of the feminine identity at the beginning of the 21st Dynasty in the funerary literature /
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Role and status of women in elite family networks of Late Period Thebes : the wives of Montuemhat /
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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? /
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Women in Demotic (documentary) texts /
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Shoes, sickness, and sisters : the (in)visibility of Christian women from late antique Oxyrhynchus /
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Women's intimacy : blood, milk, and secretion in the gynecologicla papyri of ancient Egypt /
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Women's health issues as seen in Theban Tomb 16 /
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Possible functions of tattooing in ancient Egypt /
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-64903-180-7
Language:
English
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