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Dancing for Hathor: Women in Ancient Egypt
Author(s): Carolyn Graves-Brown (Author)
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
- Publication Date: 7 May 2010
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 1847250548
- ISBN-13: 9781847250544
Book Description
This 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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Well written and very readable … For a really good and fairly detailed overview of the role of women in Ancient Egypt, then this is an excellent book. –Ancient Egypt Magazine
‘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
About the Author
Carolyn Graves-Brown is curator at the Egypt Centre, University of Wales Swansea. She also teaches for the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Swansea.
