Egypt as a Woman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Egypt as a Woman write by Beth Baron. This book was released on 2005. Egypt as a Woman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Can anything new be said about modern Egyptian nationalism? Beth Baron's book Egypt as a Woman, one of the best modern Egyptian history books to appear in several years, leaves no doubt that it can. With evenhandedness and generosity, Baron shows how vital women were to mobilizing opposition to British authority and modernizing Egypt.”—Robert L. Tignor, author of Capitalism and Nationalism at the End of Empire “A wonderful contribution to understanding Egyptian national and gender politics between the two world wars. Baron explores the paradox of women’s exclusion from political rights at the very moment when visual and metaphorical representations of Egypt as a woman were becoming widespread and real women activists—both secularist and Islamist—were participating more actively in public life than ever before.”—Donald Malcolm Reid, author of Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology, Museums, and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I
When Women Ruled the World
When Women Ruled the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When Women Ruled the World write by Kara Cooney. This book was released on 2018-10-30. When Women Ruled the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This riveting narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra--women who ruled with real power--and shines a piercing light on our own perceptions of women in power today. Female rulers are a rare phenomenon--but thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt, women reigned supreme. Regularly, repeatedly, and with impunity, queens like Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, and Cleopatra controlled the totalitarian state as power-brokers and rulers. But throughout human history, women in positions of power were more often used as political pawns in a male-dominated society. What was so special about ancient Egypt that provided women this kind of access to the highest political office? What was it about these women that allowed them to transcend patriarchal obstacles? What did Egypt gain from its liberal reliance on female leadership, and could today's world learn from its example? Celebrated Egyptologist Kara Cooney delivers a fascinating tale of female power, exploring the reasons why it has seldom been allowed through the ages, and why we should care.
Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt
Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt write by Jane Rowlandson. This book was released on 1998-11-26. Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The period of Egyptian history from its rule by the Macedonian Ptolemaic dynasty to its incorporation into the Roman and Byzantine empires has left a wealth of evidence for the lives of ordinary men and women. Texts (often personal letters) written on papyrus and other materials, objects of everyday use and funerary portraits have survived from the Graeco-Roman period of Egyptian history. But much of this unparalleled resource has been available only to specialists because of the difficulty of reading and interpreting it. Now eleven leading scholars in this field have collaborated to make available to students and other non-specialists a selection of over three hundred texts translated from Greek and Egyptian, as well as more than fifty illustrations, documenting the lives of women within this society, from queens to priestesses, property-owners to slave-girls, from birth through motherhood to death. Each item is accompanied by full explanatory notes and bibliographical references.
Women, Gender and Identity in Third Intermediate Period Egypt
Women, Gender and Identity in Third Intermediate Period Egypt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women, Gender and Identity in Third Intermediate Period Egypt write by Jean Li. This book was released on 2017-01-06. Women, Gender and Identity in Third Intermediate Period Egypt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Women, Gender and Identity in Third Intermediate Period Egypt clarifies the role of women in Egyptian society during the first millennium BCE, allowing for more nuanced discussions of women in the Third Intermediate Period. It is an intensive study of a corpus that is both geographically and temporally localized around the city of Thebes, which was the cultural and religious centre of Egypt during this period and home to a major national necropolis. Unlike past studies which have relied heavily on literary evidence, Li presents a refreshing material culture-based analysis of identity construction in elite female burial practices. This close examination of the archaeology of women’s burial presents an opportunity to investigate the social, professional and individual identities of women beyond the normative portrayals of the subordinate wife, mother and daughter. Taking a methodological and material culture-based approach which adds new dimensions to scholarly and popular understandings of ancient Egyptian women, this fascinating and important study will aid scholars of Egyptian history and archaeology, and anyone with an interest in women and gender in the ancient world.
Women in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
Women in Nineteenth-Century Egypt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women in Nineteenth-Century Egypt write by Judith E. Tucker. This book was released on 1985. Women in Nineteenth-Century Egypt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book provides a unique account of the very active economic, social and political roles of nineteenth-century women.
