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Bibliography on Women in Ancient Egypt

Arnold, Dorothea, The Royal Women of Amarna, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, c. 1996, ISBN 0-87099-816-1

Blackman, A.M., "On the Position of Women in the Ancient Egyptian Hierarchy," JEA 7 (1921) p. 8-30.

Capel, Anne K., and Glenn E. Markoe (eds.), Mistress of the House; Mistress of Heaven, Hudson Hills Press, c. 1996, ISBN 1-55595-129-5

Desroches Noblecourt, Christiane, La femme au temps des Pharaons, Stock/Laurence Pernoud, c. 1998, ISBN 2-234-01941-9

Fischer, Henry George, Egyptian Women of the Old Kingdom and of the Heracleopolitan Period, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, c. 1989, ISBN 0-87099-565-0

Hawass, Zahi, Silent Images: Women in Pharaonic Egypt, c. 2000.

Hollis, Susan T, "Women of Ancient Egypt and the Sky Goddess Nut," Journal of American Folklore, 100, 1987, pp. 496-503.

Janssen, Rosalind M. and Jac. J., Growing up in Ancient Egypt, Rubicon Press, c. 1990, ISBN 0-948695-15-3

Lesko, Barbara, The Great Goddesses of Egypt, c. 1999.

Lesko, Barbara, "Listening to the Ancient Egyptian Woman: Letters, Testimonials, and other Expressions of Self," in Emily Teeter and John A. Larson (eds.) Gold of Praise (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization, 58), c. 1999, pp. 247-254.

Lesko, Barbara S., The Remarkable Women of Ancient Egypt, B.C.Publications, c. 1996, ISBN 0-930548-13-2

Lesko, Barbara S. (ed), Women's Earliest Records from Ancient Egypt and Western Asia, c. 1989.

Lesko, Barbara S., "Women and Religion in Ancient Egypt," in Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World, c. 2002, http://www.stoa.org/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2002.01.0007

Lesko, Barbara S., "Women's Monumental Mark on Ancient Egypt," Biblical Archaeologist Vol. 51, No. 1 (1991) pp. 4-15.

Manniche, Lise, Music and Musicians in Ancient Egypt, British Museum Press, c. 1991.

Meltzer, Edmund S., "Queens, Goddesses and Other Women of Ancient Egypt," Journal of the American Oriental Society, 110, 1989, pp. 503-509.

Pinch, Geraldine, Votive Offerings to Hathor, Griffith Institute, c. 1993, ISBN 0-900416-54-8

Robins, Gay, "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.

Robins, Gay, ""The God's Wife of Amun in the 18th Dynasty in Egypt," in A. Cameron and A. Kuhrt (eds.) Images of Women in Antiquity, 2nd Ed., c. 1993, pp. 65-78.

Robins, Gay, Women in Ancient Egypt, Harvard University Press, c. 1993, ISBN 0-674-95468-8

Roth, Ann Macy, "The Absent Spouse:: Patterns and Taboos in Egyptian Tomb Decoration," in JARCE 36 (1999), pp. 37-53.

Strouhal, Eugen, Life of the Ancient Egyptians, University of Oklahoma Press, c. 1992, ISBN 0-8061-2475-X

Troy, Lana, Patterns of Queenship in Ancient Egyptian Myth and History, University of Uppsala, c.1986, ISBN 91-554-1919-4.

Tyldesley, Joyce, Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt, Penguin Books, c. 1994, ISBN 0-14-017596-2

Watterson, Barbara, Women in Ancient Egypt, St. Martin's Press, c. 1991, ISBN 0-312-07538-3

Wenig, Steffen, Women in Ancient Egypt, New York: McGraw-Hill. 1969.

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