Image Construction, Status Analysis, Goddess Reflection: -- Three Kinds of Directions of Ancient Egyptian Women’s Research in China

Xinbo He

doi:10.62051/n5yygj57

Authors

Xinbo He

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.62051/n5yygj57

Keywords:

Ancient Egypt; Gender Study; Image Construction; Status Analysis; Goddess Reflection.

Abstract

In the history of ancient Egypt, women were an ordinary but indispensable group, occupying an important position in family construction, legal practice and national governance. At the same time, their activities are also reflected in literature, artworks genesis mythology. From the perspective of academic history, the existing achievements of ancient Egyptian women can be summarized as three research directions: image construction, status discrimination and Goddess reflection. In advocating gender study and interdisciplinary construction of academic trend, effectively take example by art, law, literature and other discipline research methods, reasonably draw religious theology, marriage and family theory paradigm, to build a discourse system of world history gender research with Chinese characteristics based on the historical facts of ancient Egypt which has a broad academic prospect.

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