Description
Book SynopsisThis is a rich and lively account of the women of ancient Egypt from goddesses to dancing girls, queens to housewives. The fragmentary evidence allows us only tantalising glimpses of the sophisticated and complex society of the ancient Egyptians. Carolyn Graves-Brown draws on funerary remains, tomb paintings, architecture and textual evidence to explore all aspects of women in Egypt from goddesses and queens to women as the 'vessels of creation'. This is a wide ranging and revealing account told with authority and verve.
Trade ReviewTitle mention in Times Higher Education.
'She writes with an obvious enthusiasm for her subject and the anthropological approach that she applies to the women of prehistoric and predynastic Egypt is most welcome... Her stated aim is to write a book that will 'encourage debate' and I have no doubt that she has achieved this ambition.' -- History Today
Table of ContentsPreface; Chronology; Chapter 1: Rich women, poor women; Chapter 2: Changing worlds; Chapter 3: 'The Egyptians in their manners and customs seem to have reversed the ordinary practices of mankind'; Chapter 4: Birth, life and death; Chapter 5: Women's work; Chapter 6: Sexuality, art and religion; Chapter 7: Queens and harems; Chapter 8: Goddesses; Conclusion.
