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OverviewCutting-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. ? Clementine 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, Universite de Geneve, Switzerland, and Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL, France ? Anke Ilona Bloebaum, Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany ? Eva-Maria Engel, Humboldt-Universitaet 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 ? Jose Ramon Perez-Accino Picatoste, Facultad de Geografia 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 Stuenkel, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA ? Inmaculada Vivas Sainz, National Distance Education University), Madrid, Spain ? Hana Vymazalova, Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czeck Republic ? Jacquelyn Williamson, George Mason University, Fairfax, Viriginia, USA ? Annik Wuethrich, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austrian Archaeological Institute, Vienna, Austria Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mariam F. AyadPublisher: American University in Cairo Press Imprint: American University in Cairo Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm ISBN: 9781649031808ISBN 10: 1649031807 Pages: 522 Publication Date: 15 November 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsIllustrations 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 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 List of Abbreviations BibliographyReviewsWomen in Ancient Egypt: Revisiting, Power, Agency, and Autonomy provides an indispensable collection of the freshest and most creative research on women in ancient Egypt from the dawn of the state to Late Antiquity, exploring the lives of women at various levels of society as well as ancient Egyptian perceptions of the female body. This volume aims to be a counter to previous studies which have downplayed, dismissed, or oversexualized the evidence of women in the archeological record, and it hits the mark. --Kara Cooney, UCLA This book is the first comprehensive treatment of women in ancient Egypt in general, both royal and non-royal, from the Early Dynastic Period to Late Antiquity. The brilliant in-depth studies covering diverse sources--texts, pictures, and material culture--provide excellent insight into very different aspects of the lives of women, thus illuminating a broad thematic framework. The inclusion of considerations of power, economy, law, and health and the body is a welcome extension to the focus on the feminine world in ancient Egypt. --Angelika Lohwasser, University of Munster, Germany Author InformationMariam F. Ayad is an associate professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo. In 2020–2021 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. 740–525 BC), and the editor of three volumes on Coptic Culture, including Studies in Coptic Culture: Transmission and Interaction. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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