Women in Ancient Egypt

Revisiting Power, Agency, and Autonomy

Mariam F. Ayad, Mariam F. Ayad

• Editore: The American University in Cairo Press
• Anno: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781649032690
• Argomento: History
• Categoria: Egyptian Ancient History

Cutting-edge research by twenty-four international scholars on female power, agency, health, and literacy in ancient Egypt 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.· Clémentine Audouit, Paul Valery University, Montpellier, France
· Anne Austin, University of Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
· Mariam F. Ayad, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
· Romane Betbeze, Université de Genève, Switzerland, and Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL, France
· Anke Ilona Blöbaum, Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
· Eva-Maria Engel, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
· Renate Fellinger, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
· Kathrin Gabler, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
· Rahel Glanzmann, independent scholar, Basel, Switzerland.
· Izold Guegan, Swansea University, UK, and Sorbonne University, Paris, France
· Fayza Haikal, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
· Janet H. Johnson, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Il, USA
· Katarzyna Kapiec, Institute of the Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
· Susan Anne Kelly, Macquarie University Sydney, Sydney, Australia
· AnneMarie Luijendijk, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
· Suzanne Onstine, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
· José Ramón Pérez-Accino Picatoste, Facultad de Geografía e Historia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
· Tara Sewell-Lasater, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
· Yasmin El Shazly, American Research Center in Egypt, Cairo, Egypt
· Reinert Skumsnes, Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
· Isabel Stünkel, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA
· Inmaculada Vivas Sainz, National Distance Education University), Madrid, Spain
· Hana Vymazalová, Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czeck Republic
· Jacquelyn Williamson, George Mason University, Fairfax, Viriginia, USA
· Annik Wüthrich, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austrian Archaeological Institute, Vienna, Austria

Indice dei contenuti

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Contributors
• Foreword: Women in Ancient Egypt: Current Research and Historical Trends
• 1. Moving Beyond Gender Bias
• 2. Early Dynastic Women: The Written Evidence
• 3. The Funerary Domains of Setibhor and Other Old Kingdom Queens
• 4. Elevated or Diminished? Questions Regarding Middle Kingdom Royal Women
• 5. Egyptianizing Female Sphinxes in Anatolia and the Levant during the Middle Bronze Age
• 6. An Intriguing Feminine Figure in the Royal Cachette Wadi: New Findings from the C2 Project
• 7. The Role of Amunet during the Reign of Hatshepsut
• 8. Power, Piety, and Gender in Context: Hatshepsut and Nefertiti
• 9. Arsinoë II and Berenike II: Ptolemaic Vanguards of Queenly Political Power
• 10. Women in the Economic Domain: First to Sixth Dynasties
• 11. Ostentation in Old Kingdom Female Tombs: Between Iconographical Conventions and Gendered Adaptations
• 12. The ḥnrwt: A Reassessment of Their Religious Roles
• 13. Family Contracts in New Kingdom Egypt
• 14. The Women of Deir al-Medina in the Ramesside Period: Current State of Research and Future Perspectives on the Community of Workers
• 15. Some Remarks on the Shabti Corpus of Iyneferty
• 16. Some Notes on the Question of Feminine Identity at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Dynasty in the Funerary Literature
• 17. The Role and Status of Women in Elite Family Networks of Late Period Thebes: The Wives of Montuemhat
• 18. Women’s Participation as Contracting Parties as Recorded in Demotic Documents for Money from Ptolemaic Upper Egypt: A Case Study of Change?
• 19. Women in Demotic (Documentary) Texts
• 20. Shoes, Sickness, and Sisters: The (In)visibility of Christian Women from Late Antique Oxyrhynchus
• 21. Women’s Intimacy: Blood, Milk, and Women’s Conditions in the Gynecological Papyri of Ancient Egypt
• 22. Women’s Health Issues as Seen in Theban Tomb 16
• 23. Shifting Perceptions of Tattooed Women in Ancient Egypt
• List of Abbreviations
• Bibliography