Women in Ancient Egypt: Revisiting Power, Agency, and Autonomy
Women in Ancient Egypt: Revisiting Power, Agency, and Autonomy
- Cairo; New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2022
- 492 p., ill.; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
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 Stünke -- 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 Wüthrich -- 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, Nataša Šarkić, Miguel Sanchez, and Rosa Dinarès Solá -- 23. Shifting Perceptions of Tattooed Women in Ancient Egypt / Anne Austin
"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."
9781649031808
2021055858
Women--History--Egypt--To 1500--Social life
Includes bibliographical references.
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 Stünke -- 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 Wüthrich -- 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, Nataša Šarkić, Miguel Sanchez, and Rosa Dinarès Solá -- 23. Shifting Perceptions of Tattooed Women in Ancient Egypt / Anne Austin
"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."
9781649031808
2021055858
Women--History--Egypt--To 1500--Social life