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This chapter analyzes questions of gender and power in ancient Egypt with a specific focus on Hatshepsut and Nefertiti, two women who are often lauded as exemplars of female agency in the ancient world.
In Ayad’s introductory chapter, the main focus is to challenge and refute gender bias in the study of ancient Egyptian women. She discusses the misrepresentation of these ancient women in scholarship, particularly in relation to their exercise of power, economic independence, and literacy.
Ancient Egyptian attitudes towards women -- Women in society I - social and legal position -- Women in society II - female occupations and professions -- Love and marriage -- Health and childbirth -- Dress and adornment -- Domestic life -- Women of power
Ancient Egypt was highly unusual in its acceptance of women in roles that elsewhere would have been the sole province of men — at the domestic level, managing the household finances and directing servants, running home-based businesses such as weaving and pottery, even negotiating deals and entering into legal contracts; and at the royal level, ...
(1 of 230) Favorite. Women in ancient Egypt. by. Watterson, Barbara. Publication date. 1991. Topics. Women. Publisher. New York : St. Martin's Press. Collection. internetarchivebooks; americana; inlibrary; printdisabled. Contributor. Internet Archive. Language. English. Item Size. 318.6M.
There is abundant evidence, both written and pictorial, for women in ancient Egypt. We can glimpse the lives of royal, noble, as well as peasant women, although there are limitations on how...
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.
This book aims to transform existing narratives on women’s roles from the Early Dynastic and Pyramid Age Egypt (c. 3080–2181 BCE) by demonstrating female involvement, influence and impact in social power domains and the socioeconomic structure of the early state.
In Ayad’s introductory chapter, the main focus is to challenge and refute gender bias in the study of ancient Egyptian women. She discusses the misrepresentation of these ancient women in scholarship, particularly in relation to their exercise of power, economic independence, and literacy.
This monograph had its beginning in a conference organized by Barbara Lesko at Brown University in November 1987. Along with the other papers that were read, it was subsequently published in a volume edited by her, and entitled Women’s Earliest Records: from Ancient Egypt and Western Asia (Scholar’s Press, 1989).