Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt (Penguin History) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt (Penguin History) Book

In ancient Egypt women enjoyed a legal, social and sexual independence unrivalled by their Greek or Roman sisters, or in fact by most women until the late nineteenth century. They could own and trade in property, work outside the home, marry foreigners and live alone without the protection of a male guardian. Some of them even rose to rule Egypt as ‘female kings’. Joyce Tyldesley’s vivid history of how women lived in ancient Egypt weaves a fascinating picture of daily life – marriage and the home, work and play, grooming and religion – viewed from a female perspective, in a work that is engaging, original and constantly surprising.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    During the dynastic period (3000 BC - 332 BC), as the Greek historian Herodotus was intrigued to observe, Egyptian women enjoyed a legal, social and sexual independence unrivalled by their Greek or Roman sisters, unrivalled, indeed...

  • Penguin

    Egypt was undoubtedly the best place to have been born a woman in the whole of the Ancient World.

  • 0140175962
  • 9780140175967
  • Joyce Tyldesley
  • 30 March 1995
  • Penguin
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 336
  • New Ed
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