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Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt: 'Don your wig for a joyful hour'

edited by Carolyn Graves-Brown

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 Egyptologys traditional strengths, philological and iconographic, with reflections on material culture and on the discipline of Egyptology itself. The authors are internationally-recognised authorities in their fields. c.233p, b/w illus (Classical Press of Wales 2008)

Review Quotes

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

Robert Partridge
Ancient Egypt Magazine Issue 53 (April 2009)

"...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."

Danijela Stefanovic, University of Belgrade
BMCR, Vol 35 (April 2009)

Table of Contents

Introduction (Carolyn Graves-Brown); The Problem of Female Rebirth in New Kingdom Egypt: The Fragmentation of the Female Individual in Her Funerary Equipment (Kathlyn M Cooney); Queering Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt (Thomas A Dowson); Power on their own: gender and social roles in provincial New Kingdom Egypt (Terence DuQuesne); ‘People vs. P. Turin 55001’ (Jiri Janak and Hana Navrátilová); Breaches of Cooperative Rules. Metaphors and Parody in ancient Egyptian love songs (Renata Landgráfová); Rules of Decorum and Expressions of Gender Fluidity in Tawosret’s Tomb (Heather Lee McCarthy); Boasting about Hardness: Constructions of Middle Kingdom Masculinity (R B Parkinson); Queer Egyptologies of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep (Greg Reeder); Did Women 'Do Things' in Ancient Egypt? (Circa 2600-1050 BCE) (Carolyn Routledge); The Bearded Woman and the Queen. The Formation and Transformation of Female Divine Classifiers (Racheli Shalomi-Hen); Gender and Requests in New Kingdom Literature(Deborah Sweeney).

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