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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Xehetasun bibliografikoak
Beste egile batzuk: Ayad, Mariam F. (Argitaratzailea)
Formatua: Licensed eBooks
Hizkuntza:ingelesa
Argitaratua: Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2022.
Sarrera elektronikoa:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv2r4kwrg
Aurkibidea:
  • Foreword : women in ancient Egypt : current research & historical trends / Fayza Haikal
  • Moving beyond gender bias / Mariam F. Ayad
  • The earliest evidence. Early Dynastic women : the written evidence / Eva-Maria Engel
  • Royal women : expressions of power & influence. The funerary domains of Setibhor and other old kingdom queens / Hana Vymazalová
  • Elevated or diminished? : questions regarding Middle Kingdom royal women / Isabel Stünkel
  • Egyptianizing female sphinxes in Anatolia and the Levant 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
  • Power, piety, and gender in context : Hatshepsut and Nefertiti / Jacquelyn Williamson
  • Arsinoë 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 : first to sixth dynasties / Susan Anne Kelly
  • Ostentation in Old Kingdom female tombs : between iconographical conventions and gendered adaptations / Romane Betbeze
  • The ḫnrwt : a reassessment of their religious roles / Izold Guegan
  • Family contracts in New Kingdom Egypt / Reinart Skumsnes
  • The women of Deir el-Medina in the Ramesside period : current state of research and future perspectives on the community of workers / 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 twenty-first 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 as recorded in Demotic documents 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 women's conditions in the gynecological papyri of ancient Egypt / Clémentine Audouit
  • Women's health issues as seen in Theban Tomb 16 / Suzanne Onstine [and four others]
  • Shifting perceptions of tattooed women in ancient Egypt / Anne Austin.