Women in Egypt: Bibliography

Menkaure and His Queen
4th Dynasty, c. 2470 BCE
slate, height 4 feet 8 inches)
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)


Women in Egypt BIBLIOGRAPHY Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe

Luomala, Nancy. "Matrilineal Reinterpretation of Some Egyptian Sacred Cows."
Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae : Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.
Geraldine Pinch, Magic in Ancient Egypt, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.
Evelyn Reed, Woman's Evolution: From Matriarchal Clan to Patriarchal Family, New York: Pathfinder, 1975.
Gay Robins, "A critical examination of the theory that the right to the throne of ancient Egypt passed through the female line in the 18th dynasty." Göttinger Miszellen 62 (1983): 67-77.
Gay Robins, Women in Ancient Egypt. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Mohamed Saleh and Hourig Sourouzain, The Egyptian Museum Cairo, Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1987.
Steffen Wenig, Women in Ancient Egypt. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1969.
Richard H. Wilkinson, Reading Egyptian Art, New York: Thams & Hudson, 1992.

George A. Reisner, Mycerinus, the Temple of the Third Pyramid at Giza, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931.
George A. Reisner, A History of the Giza Necropolis, vol. I, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1955; vol. II, The Tomb of Hetep-heres the Mother of Cheops, completed and revised by William Stevenson Smith, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1955.
Ahmed Fakhry, The Monuments of Sneferu at Dahshur, 2 vols., Cairo: General Organization for Government Printing Offices, 1959.
William Stevenson Smith, "Evidence for the History of the Fourth Dynasty," Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 11, 1952, 113-122.
Edmund S. Meltzer, "Queens, Goddesses and Other Women of Ancient Egypt," Journal of the American Oriental Society, 110, 1989, pp. 503-509.
Lana Troy, Patterns of Queenship in Ancient Egyptian Myth and History, Uppsala: University of Uppsala, 1986.
W. Woods, "A Reconstruction of the Triads of King Mycerinus," Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 60, 1974, pp. 82-93.
Diodorus of Sicily. Trans. C. H. Oldfather, Loeb Classical Library, vol. I (Books I and II), London and New York: 1933.
Herodotus. Translated by A. D. Godley, Loeb Classical Library, vol. I (Books I and II), London and Cambridge, Mass., rev. ed. 1981.
Howard Carter and A. C. Mace, The Tomb of Tut ^.Ankh ^.Amen, London: Cassell, 1923.