Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt

'Don Your Wig for a Joyful Hour'

edited by Carolyn Graves-Brown

Book cover: Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt

Extent: 245 pages

Publisher: The Classical Press of Wales

Subjects: Ancient Egypt, Gender & Sexuality

Series: Egypt

Language: English

(Paperback) (Published)

(July 2026)

ISBN: 9781914535635

Price: $35.00

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Hardback (Published)

(December 2008)

ISBN: 9781905125241

6.1 x 9.17 inches

Price: $80.00

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PDF (Published)

(December 2008)

ISBN: 9781910589410

Price: $35.00

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.

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 DuQuesne 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 McCarthy 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

  • Edited by Carolyn Graves-Brown