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Available
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Publication
Harvard University Press (1993), Edition: Illustrated, 208 pages
Description
Using primary sources, this book provides a review of the lives of Egyptian women between about 3000 BC and 332 AD. It deals chiefly with the elite class since the peasants left little mark, and shows how, despite restrictions, some women wielded great power in Ancient Egypt.
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LibraryThing member MarthaJeanne
This book leaves me wondering whether anything about Ancient Egyptian women has come out in the past 20 years.
This book would have been greatly imporved by a different title, to indicate the great void of information, and avoid the unfulfilable expectation that the book would actually give us some
Another major improvement would have been to have the illustrations near the text describing them. There could be pictures on a page describing an illustration, and the picture described would be 20-30 pages away, but the picture there with no connection to the text at all. Very poor editing.
This book would have been greatly imporved by a different title, to indicate the great void of information, and avoid the unfulfilable expectation that the book would actually give us some
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real insight into the lives of women in Ancient Egypt.Another major improvement would have been to have the illustrations near the text describing them. There could be pictures on a page describing an illustration, and the picture described would be 20-30 pages away, but the picture there with no connection to the text at all. Very poor editing.
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Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1993
Physical description
208 p.; 6.75 inches
ISBN
0674954696 / 9780674954694