(p. 12) "main problems...: first, the nature of the source material [archeological, textual, representational]; second, the interests and biases of Egyptologists."
(p. 15) "...the issue of father-daughter marriages in the royal family"
(p. 15) "Much of [the surviving material/written sources] comes from the New Kingdom or later..."
(p. 17) "...a study of women in ancient Egypt must almost wholly concentrate on women of [the] elite [scribal] class, together with women of the royal family about whom a certain amount of material survives."
Discussion Topics
(p. 21) "Royal women in ancient Egypt derived their importance from their relationship to the King, who was always, apart from a very few exceptions, male" Discuss
(p. 56) "Defining marriage in ancient Egypt" Discuss
(p. 142) "In the Old Kingdom a large number of high class women were priestesses [hemet netjer] of Hathor." Discuss