Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt: 'Don Your Wig for a Joyful Hour'

by Carolyn Graves-Brown (Editor)

Overview

This volume offers new research on an essential but often controversial aspect of life in Dynastic Egypt. Its originality lies in combining research which uses Egyptology's traditional strengths, philological and iconographic, with reflections on material culture and on the discipline of Egyptology itself. The authors are internationally-recognized authorities in their fields.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781905125241
Publisher:	Classical Press of Wales, The
Publication date:	12/31/2008
Pages:	245
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Carolyn Graves-Brown is curator of the Egypt Centre, Swansea University. She has published several papers on the religious significance of flint in dynastic Egypt and has recently published her monograph Dancing for Hathor: Women in Ancient Egypt.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: Gender, sex and loss of innocence - Carolyn Graves-Brown 1. The problem of female rebirth in New Kingdom Egypt: the fragmentation of the female individual in her funerary equipment - Kathlyn M. Cooney 2. Queering sex and gender in ancient Egypt - Thomas A. Dowson 3. Power on their own: gender and social roles in provincial New Kingdom Egypt - Terence Du Quesne 4. People vs. P. Turin 5500163 - Jiri Janak and Hana Navratilova 5. Breaches of cooperative rules. Metaphors and parody in ancient Egyptian love songs - Renata Landgrafova 6. Rules of decorum and expressions of gender fluidity in Tawosret's tomb - Heather Lee Mc Carthy 7. Boasting about hardness: constructions of Middle Kingdom masulinity - R.B. Parkinson 8. Queer Egyptologies of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep - Greg Reeder 9. Did women 'do things' in ancient Egypt? (circa 2600-1050 BCE) - Carolyn Routledge 10. The bearded woman and the queen. The formation and transformation of female divine classifiers - Racheli Shalomi-Hen 11.Gender and requests in New Kingdom literature - Deborah Sweeney Index

Editorial Reviews

...this is a valuable contribution to the research of various aspects of gender studies. Various methodological approaches (philological, iconographic, analysis of material) illuminate the difficulties in research and in understanding male and female life in ancient Egypt.'

Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Vol. 35, April 2009 - Danijela Stefanovic

Some of the latest thoughts and research on sex and gender in ancient Egypt, a useful addition to the existing publications.'

Ancient Egypt Magazine, Issue 53, April 2009 - Robert Partridge