Women in Ancient Egypt

Vorwort
Cutting-edge research by twenty-four international scholars on female power, agency, health, and literacy in ancient Egypt

Autorentext
Mariam F. Ayad is an associate professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo. In 20202021 she was a visiting associate professor of Women's Studies and Near Eastern Religions and a research associate of Harvard Divinity School's Women's Studies in Religion Program. She is the author of God's Wife, God's Servant: The God's Wife of Amun (c. 740525 BC), and the editor of three volumes on Coptic Culture, including Studies in Coptic Culture: Transmission and Interaction.

Klappentext
"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."--

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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 Vymazalová

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

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
José Ramón Pérez-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 Wuthrich

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

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
Clémentine Audouit

22. Women's Health Issues as Seen in Theban Tomb 16
Suzanne Onstine, Jesús Herrerin López, Nataa arki, Miguel Sanchez, and Rosa Dinarès Solá

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

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