Women in Ancient Egypt

Women in Ancient Egypt

Revisiting Power, Agency, and Autonomy

Ayad, Mariam F.

American University in Cairo Press

11/2022

522

Dura

Inglês

9781649031808

15 a 20 dias

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Contributors

Foreword: Women in Ancient Egypt: Current Research and Historical Trends
Fayza Haikal

1. Moving Beyond Gender Bias
Mariam F. Ayad

THE EARLIEST EVIDENCE
2. Early Dynastic Women: The Written Evidence
Eva-Maria Engel

ROYAL WOMEN: EXPRESSIONS OF POWER AND INFLUENCE
3. The Funerary Domains of Setibhor and Other Old Kingdom Queen
Hana Vymazalova

4. Elevated or Dimished? Questions Regarding Middle Kingdom Royal Women
Isabel Stu?nke

5. Egyptianizing Female Sphinxes in Anatolia and the Levant during the Middle Bronze Age
Yasmin El-Shazly

6. An Intriguing Feminine Figure in the Royal Cachette Wadi: New Findings from C2 Project
Jose? Ramon Perez-Accino Picatoste and Inmaculada Vivas Sainz

7. The Role of Amunet during the Reign of Hatshepsut
Katarzyna Kapiec

8. Power, Piety, and Gender in Context: Hatshepsut and Nefertiti
Jacquelyn Williamson

9. Arsino? II and Berenike II: Ptolemaic Vangaurds of Queenly Political Power
Tara Sewell-Lasater

NONROYAL WOMEN: LEGAL AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS
10. Women in the Economic Domain: First to Sixth Dynasties
Susan Anne Kelly

11. Ostentation in Old Kingdom Female Tombs: Between Iconographic Conventions and Gendered Adaptations
Romane Betbeze

12. The hxnr.wt: A Reassessment of Their Religious Roles
Izold Guegan

13. Family Contracts in New Kingdom Egypt
Reinert Skumsnes

14. The Women of Deir al-Medina in the Ramesside Period: Current State of Research and Future Perspectives on the Community of Workers
Kathrin Gabler

15. Some remarks on the Shabti Corpus of Iyneferty
Rahel Glanzmann

16. Some Notes on the Question of the Feminine Identity at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Dynasty in the Funerary Literature
Annik Wu?thrich

17. The Role and Status of Women in Elite Family Networks of Late Period Thebes: The Wives of Montuemhat
Anke Ilona Bloebaum

18. Women's Participation as Contracting Parties and Ownership Rights as Recorded in Demotic Documents for Money from Ptolemaic Upper Egypt: A Case Study of Change?
Renate Fellinger

19. Women in Demotic (Documentary) Texts
Janet H. Johnson

20. Shoes, Sickness, and Sisters: The (In)visibility of Christian Women from Late Antique Oxyrhynchus
AnneMarie Luijendijk

THE FEMALE BODY
21. Women's Intimacy: Blood, Milk, and Women's Conditions in the Gynecological Papyri of Ancient Egypt
Clementine Audouit

22. Women's Health Issues as Seen in Theban Tomb 16
Suzanne Onstine, Jesus Herrerin Lopez, Natasa Sarkic, Miguel Sanchez, and Rosa Dinares Sola

23. Shifting Perceptions of Tattooed Women in Ancient Egypt
Anne Austin

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History; Egypt; Social Science; Archaeology; Egyptology; Women's Studies; Middle East; Ancient; Religion; Antiquities; To 1500; To 640 A.D; North Africa; Gender; Feminine; Clementine Audouit; Anne Austin; Mariam Ayad; Romane Betbeze; Anke Ilona Bloebaum; Eva-Maria Engel; Renate Fellinger; Kathrin Gabler; Rahel Glanzmann; Izold Guegan; Fayza Haikal; Janet H. Johnson; Katarzyna Kapiec; Susan Anne Kelly; AnneMarie Luijendijk; Suzanne Onstine; Jose Ramon Perez-Accino Picatoste; Tara Sewell-Lasater; Yasmin El Shazly; - Reinert Skumsnes; Isabel Stuenkel; Inmaculada Vivas Sainz; Hana Vymazalova; Jacquelyn Williamson; Annik Wuethrich; power; agency; health; literacy