Dancing for Hathor : women in ancient Egypt

Content: 1. Rich women, poor women --
2. Changing worlds : The golden age 
 The great Mother Goddess 
 The status and role of predynastic women 
 Inequality and the rise of the state 
 Women's status and the growth of agriculture 
 Women's status from the Old Kingdom to the Middle Kingdom 
 Queens of the Old Kingdom 
 Administrative titles 
 Priestesses of Hathor 
 Women textile workers 
 Women in trade 
 Did women's status decline from the Old to the Middle Kingdoms? 
 Later periods --
3. Reversing the ordinary practices of mankind : The dangerous temptress and the passive wife 
 Women, weapons and warfare 
 Domestic violence 
 Women, the law and property 
 Adultery and divorce 
 Crime and punishment 
 Housewife 
 Was ancient Egypt a matrilineal society? 
 Were women considered to be sex objects? --
4. Birth, life and death : Education, literacy and scribes 
 Age and sexuality 
 Menarche and menstruation 
 Coming of age and marriage 
 Polygamy 
 Contraceptives and abortion 
 Phallic votives and fertility figurines 
 Pregnancy and childbirth 
 Motherhood 
 Widows and old age --
5. Women's work : Women serving women 
 Conscripted labour 
 Agriculture 
 Textile production 
 Women and trade 
 The 'wise women' 
 Prostitution 
 Doctors and midwives 
 Nurses and tutors 
 Hairdressers and perfumers 
 Treasurers 
 Vizier 
 Women and the court 
 Women deputizing for their husbands 
 Women and the temple 
 Servants of the God 
 Henut 
 God's Wife of Amun and Divine Adoratrice 
 Priestess singers and Meret 
 The Chantress 
 Singers in the 'interior' 
 Khener and dancing 
 Women and funerals 
 The role of music and dance 
 Impersonating Hathor --
6. Sexuality, art and religion : Sexuality and the erotic 
 Sexual identity 
 The creative power of the male 
 Homosexuality 
 Androgyny 
 Were the Egyptians prudes? 
 Ostraca and the Turin Papyrus 
 High art and coded messages 
 Tattoos, sex and dancing girls 
 Day beds and public celebration of sexuality 
 The erotic body 
 Love poetry 
 Women and rebirth 
 The power of the erotic --
7. Queens and harems : Queenship 
 Symbols of queenship 
 The queen as Hathor 
 Divine birth 
 Incest and the heiress theory 
 Royal polygamy 
 The 'harem' of Mentuhotep II 
 Institutions of women in the New Kingdom: ipet-nesw and per-khener 
 Medinet-Gurob (Mi-wer) 
 Royal children 
 Diplomatic marriages 
 'Harem plots' 
 The harem plot of Rameses III 
 Female kings 
 Ahmes Nefertari (Ahmes/Ahmose Nefertari) (c.1570-1506 BC) 
 Hatshepsut (c.1470-1458 BC) 
 Nefertiti (c.1390-1340 BC) 
 Cleopatra VII (c.69-31 BC) 
 Egyptian attitudes to women in power --
8. Goddesses : Nut 
 Neith 
 Isis and Nephthys 
 Hathor 
 Drunkenness 
 The return of the distant one.