Daughters Of The Nile

Women of the Nile: The Lives, Rights, Work, and Power of Egyptian Women from the Pharaohs to the Modern Age

Five thousand years of Egyptian history, told through the women who lived it. From prehistoric farmers to pharaonic property owners, from Cleopatra to Cairo's first feminists, Women of the Nile traces a startling legal tradition: Egyptian women could own land, sign contracts, inherit, and divorce on terms unusually strong for their era — rights many Western women wouldn't hold until centuries later. Spanning twenty-five chapters across five eras of conquest and change, this book separates documented history from myth — Hatshepsut's kingship, the truth behind the harem, the real Cleopatra — and asks one question of every period: what could an Egyptian woman actually do?

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E-bog: 8. september 2026