Dancing for Hathor: women in ancient Egypt

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.