num_pages: 522
description: Cutting-edge research by twenty-four international scholars on female power agency health and literacy in ancient EgyptThere 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 womens 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. Clmentine 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 Universit de Genve Switzerland and Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes PSL France Anke Ilona Blbaum Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig Leipzig Germany Eva-Maria Engel Humboldt-Universitt 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 Jos Ramn Prez-Accino Picatoste Facultad de Geografa 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 Stnkel The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York New York USA Inmaculada Vivas Sainz National Distance Education University) Madrid Spain Hana Vymazalov Czech Institute of Egyptology Faculty of Arts Charles University Prague Czeck Republic Jacquelyn Williamson George Mason University Fairfax Viriginia USA Annik Wthrich Austrian Academy of Sciences Austrian Archaeological Institute Vienna Austria
language: English
title: Women in Ancient Egypt: Revisiting Power, Agency, and Autonomy
publisher: The American University in Cairo Press