| Mrs. Tsenhor: A Female Entrepreneur in Ancient Egypt Contributor(s): Donker Van Heel, Koenraad (Author) |
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ISBN: 9774166779 ISBN-13: 9789774166778 Publisher: American University in Cairo Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - Egypt - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Business & Economics | Entrepreneurship |
| Dewey: 932.016 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 9" (1.00 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - North Africa - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Tsenhor was born about 550 If Tsenhor were alive today she would be wearing jeans, drive a pick-up, and enjoy a beer with the boys. She clearly was her own boss, and one assumes that this happened with the full support of her second husband Psenese, who fathered two of her children. She married him when she was in her mid-thirties. Like her father and husband, Tsenhor could be hired to bring offerings to the dead in the necropolis on the west bank of the Nile. For a fee of course, and that is how her family acquired high-quality farm land on more than one occasion. But Tsenhor also did other business on her own, such as buying a slave and co-financing the reconstruction of a house that she owned together with Psenese. She seems in many ways to have been a liberated woman, some 2,500 years before the concept was invented. Embedded in the history of the first Persian occupation of Egypt, and using many sources dealing with ordinary women from the Old Kingdom up to and including the Coptic era, this book aims to forever change the general view on women in ancient Egypt, which is far too often based on the lives of Nefertiti, Hatshepsut, and Cleopatra. |
Contributor Bio(s): Donker Van Heel, Koenraad: - Koenraad Donker van Heel is lecturer in Demotic at Leiden University. He is the author of Djekhy & Son: Doing Business in Ancient Egypt (AUC Press, 2012). |
