Sex and gender in ancient Egypt : 'don your wig for a joyful hour' /

"This volume offers new research on an essential bur 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Graves-Brown, Carolyn, Cooney, Kara
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: ©2008.
Temas:
To 332 B.C.
Women > Egypt > History.
Women > Egypt > Social conditions.
Femmes > Égypte > Histoire.
Femmes > Égypte > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
Civilization.
Women.
Women > Social conditions.
Geschlechterrolle
Kvinnor > sociala förhållanden > Egypten.
Kvinnor > historia > Egypten.
Genus (socialt kön) > historia > Egypten.
Egypt > Civilization > To 332 B.C.
Égypte > Civilisation > Jusqu'à 332 av. J.-C.
Egypt.
Ägypten > Altertum
Aufsatzsammlung.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 DuQuesne
  • 4. People vs. P. Turin 55001 / 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 McCarthy
  • 7. Boasting about hardness: constructions of Middle Kingdom masculinity / R.B. Parkinson
  • 8. Queer Egyptologies of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep / Greg Reeder
  • 9. Did women 'do things' in ancient Egypt? (circa 2600-1050 B.C.E.) / 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.

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