« Some Considerations about the Development of Women Status in Egypt »

Although we can safely say that Ancient Egyptian women relished relatively good lives, there was certainly a fluctuation in the rights enjoyed by Egyptian females. The current research is concerned with trends in status of women during the long ancient Egyptian history, trying to answer the question if there was a degradation of their status in any period from the Old Kingdom up till the Late Period. Were females systematically represented smaller and inferior to their male counterparts in art ? Was there increasing violence against women (as attested in legal documents) ? Was the sexual, reproductive nature of women gradually more stressed than their active role in the society ? Did administrative and religious titles assigned to females become less common ? Did insults and verbal degradation in language take feminine form starting from a certain period? These are some of the topics dealt with in this paper.   

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