Women and Gender in Ancient Egypt: Artifact, Text, Image
(UC 150 004)
Tuesday, Thursday 10-11:30am, Kelsey Museum Classroom
On-Line syllabus
Instructor: Terry Wilfong
NOTE: This on-line syllabus is for a course that finished on 12 December 1996. As such, information about the availability of textbooks, reserve materials, etc. is no longer valid. I have updated links when possible and hope to add on-line versions of some student projects from class.
In a very real sense, a seminar such as this is a collaborative effort between instructor and student, and I would like to thank my students for their willingness to discuss and interact over the course of this term, and for their interest and enthusiasm.
TGW, 19 December 1996
Required Textbooks:
Available from Shaman Drum Bookstore (313 South State Street Upstairs):
Available from Kelsey
Museum Publications
Available after 19 September from Accucopy (402 Maynard; 1 block west of
Kelsey):
Optional Texts:
Available from Shaman Drum Bookstore (313 South State Street Upstairs):
*Also available in Undergraduate Reserve under call number listed
3. September 10
Text, Artifact and Image: Categories of Evidence
4. September 12
Gender and the Divine: Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt
Museum Gallery Visit
5. September 17
Egyptian Kingship/Queenship
Gender and Politics in Ancient Egypt
6. September 19
Marriage and the Alternatives in Egypt
Gender and the Life Cycle in Egypt
7. September 24
Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Egypt
Family and Home in Egypt
8. September 26
Outside the Home in Egypt
9. October 1
Gender and the Economy in Egypt
10. October 3
Gender and Religion in Egypt
11. October 8
Gender in stories and poems
First Writing Assignment Due
12. October 10
Knowledge, Gender and Power in Egypt
13. October 15
Reading People's Mail for Gender
14. October 17
Gendered Images in Egypt
15. October 22
Gender in the Text: Discussion of ancient documents
16. October 24
Reinterpretation: Gender in Pharaonic Egypt from Feminist Perspectives
17. October 29
Women and Gender in Graeco-Roman Egypt: Introduction
Second Writing Assignment Due
18. October 31
Queens, Kings and Power in Graeco-Roman Egypt
19. November 5 Cleopatra VII (The Famous one)
20. November 7
Other Women of Power in Graeco-Roman Egypt
21. November 12
Marriage and Family in Graeco-Roman Egypt
Third Writing Assignment Due
22. November 14
Gender and Sexuality in Graeco-Roman Egypt
Women in Religion
23. November 19
Gender, Work, Status, Economy
24. November 21
Women and Gender in Egypt under early Christianity
25. November 26
Modern Popular Perceptions of Gender in Egypt
THANKSGIVING (November 28)--NO CLASS
26. December 3
Orientalism, Egyptomania and other factors
Lecture: Lana Troy (December 4)
27. December 5
Afrocentrist perspectives: The Empowering Egyptian Woman
28. December 10
Conclusion and Wrap-up: Women and Gender in Egypt
FINAL PAPERS DUE
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
BORGHOUTS=J. F. Borghouts, Ancient Egyptian Magical Texts (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1978)
CLARKE="African Warrior Queens," In Ivan van Sertima, editor, Black Women in Antiquity, revised edition (New Brunswick NJ: Transaction Books, 1989): 123-134
HALEY=Shelley P. Haley, "Black
Feminist Thought and Classics: Re-membering, Re-claiming, Re-empowering,"
In Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Amy Richlin, editors, Feminist Theory
and the Classics (New York, Routledge, 1993): 23-43
HUGHES-HALLETT=Lucy Hughes-Hallett,
"Cleopatra's Version," In Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Cleopatra: Histories,
Dreams and Distortions (New York: Harper and Row, 1990): 70-110 + notes
JOHNSON=Egyptian texts adapted or translated and annotated by Janet H. Johnson, University of Chicago (note: these texts also available via world wide web: http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/jjwaesyll.html)
LICHTHEIM II=Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature II (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977)
LICHTHEIM III=Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature III (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980)
LUMPKIN=Beatrice Lumpkin, "Hypatia and Women's Rights in Ancient Egypt," In Ivan van Sertima, editor, Black Women in Antiquity, revised edition (New Brunswick NJ: Transaction Books, 1989): 155-161
MENU=Bernadette Menu, "Women and Business Life in the First Millennium B. C.," In Barbara S. Lesko, editor, Women's Earliest Records (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989): 192-207
PARKINSON=R. B Parkinson, Voices from Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Middle Kingdom Writings (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991)
POMEROY=Women in Hellenistic Egypt: From Alexander to Cleopatra, 2nd edition (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990)
RICHARDS & WILFONG=Janet Richards and Terry Wilfong, Preserving Eternity: Modern Goals, Ancient Intentions. Egyptian Funerary Artifacts in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, (Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, 1995)
ROBINS=Gay Robins, Women in Ancient Egypt (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993)
ROBINS-2=Gay Robins, "Some Images of Women in New Kingdom Art and Literature," In Barbara S. Lesko, editor, Women's Earliest Records (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989): 104-121
ROBINS-3=Gay Robins, "Ancient Egyptian Sexuality," In Discussions in Egyptology 11 (1988): 61-72
ROTH=Ann Macy Roth, "Building Bridges to Afrocentrism: A Letter to My Egyptological Colleagues," from Newsletter of the American Research Center in Egypt.
SIMPSON=William K. Simpson, editor, Literature of Ancient Egypt, second edition (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1973)
WARD=William A. Ward, "Non-Royal Women and their Occupations in the Middle Kingdom," In Barbara S. Lesko, editor, Women's Earliest Records (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989): 33-45
WENTE=Edward F. Wente, Letters from Ancient Egypt, Writings from the Ancient World (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990)
WILFONG=Summary of T. G. Wilfong, "Synchronous Menstruation and the 'Place of Women' in Ancient Egypt (Hieratic Ostracon Oriental Institute Museum 13512)" in Emily Teeter and John Larson, eds. Gold of Praise: Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honor of Edward F. Wente, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization (Chicago: Oriental Institute Press), forthcoming.