Women in ancient Egypt : revisiting power, agency, and autonomy / edited by Mariam Ayad.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword : women in ancient Egypt : current research & historical trends / Fayza Haikal -- Moving beyond gender bias / Miriam F. Ayad -- The earliest evidence. Early Dynastic women : the written evidence / Eva-Maria Engel -- Royal women : expressions of power & influence. Setibhor : soliving the puzzle of Djedkare's queen / Hana Vymazalová -- Elevated or diminished? : questions regarding Middle Kingdom royal women / Isabel Stünkel -- Egyptianizing female sphinxes in the Mediterranean during the Middle Bronze Age / Yasmin El-Shazly -- An intriguing feminine figure in the Royal Cachette Wadi : new findings from C2 Project / Inmaculada Vivas Sainz and José Ramón Pérez-Accino Picatoste -- The role of Amunet during the reign of Hatshepsut / Katarzyna Kapiec -- Violence and piety in context : the example of Nefertiti / Jacquelyn Williamson -- Arsinoe II and Berenike II : Ptolemaic vanguards of queenly political power / Tara Sewell-Lasater --

Non-royal women : legal and economic aspects. Women in the economic domain : Dynasties 1-6 / Susan Anne Kelly -- Ostentation in Old Kingdom female tombs : between iconographic conventions and gendered adaptations / Romane Betbeze -- The h̲nr.wt : the unsuspected women's religious implication / Izold Guegan -- Patterns on change and disclosures of difference : non-royal women in New Kingdom Egypt / Reinart Skumsnes -- The women of Deir el-Medina in the Ramesside period : current state of research and future perspectives / Kathrin Gabler -- Some remarks on the shabti corpus of Iyneferty / Rahel Glanzmann -- Some notes on the question of the feminine identity at the beginning of the 21st Dynasty in the funerary literature / Annik Wüthrich -- Role and status of women in elite family networks of Late Period Thebes : the wives of Montuemhat / Anke Ilona Blöbaum -- Women's participation as contracting parties and ownership rights as recorded in Demotic documentation for money from Ptolemaic Upper Egypt : a case study of change? / Renate Fellinger -- Women in Demotic (documentary) texts / Janet H. Johnson -- Shoes, sickness, and sisters : the (in)visibility of Christian women from late antique Oxyrhynchus / AnneMarie Luijendijk -- The female body. Women's intimacy : blood, milk, and secretion in the gynecologicla papyri of ancient Egypt / Clémentine Audouit -- Women's health issues as seen in Theban Tomb 16 / Suzanne Onstine -- Possible functions of tattooing 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."-- Provided by publisher.