Foreword: Women in ancient Egypt : current research and historical trends -- Moving beyond gender bias -- The earliest evidence. Early dynastic women : the written evidence -- Royal women : expressions of power and influence. The funerary domains of Setibhor and other Old Kingdom queens -- Elevated or diminished? Questions regarding Middle Kingdom royal women -- Egyptianizing female sphinxes in Anatolia and the Levant during the Middle Bronze Age -- An intriguing feminine figure in the royal Cachette Wadi : new findings from the C2 project -- The role of Amunet during the reign of Hatshepsut -- Power, piety, and gender in context : Hatshepsut and Nefertiti -- Arsinoë II and Berenike II : Ptolemaic vanguards of queenly political power -- Nonroyal women : legal and economic aspects. Women in the economic domain : first to sixth dynasties -- Ostentation in Old Kingdom female tombs : between iconographical conventions and gendered adaptations -- The ḫnrwt : a reassessment of their religious roles -- Family contracts in New Kingdom Egypt -- The women of Deir al-Medina in the Ramesside period : current state of research and future perspectives on the community of workers -- Some remarks on the Shabti corpus of Iyneferty -- Some notes on the question of feminine identity at the beginning of the twenty-first dynasty in the funerary literature -- The role and status of women in elite family networks of late period Thebes : the wives of Montuemhat -- Women's participation as contracting parties as recorded in demotic documents for money from Ptolemaic Upper Egypt : a case study of change? -- Women in demotic (documentary) texts -- Shoes. sickness, and sisters : the (in)visibility of Christian women from late antique Oxyrhynchus -- The female body. Women's intimacy : blood, mil, and women's conditions in the gynecological papyri of ancient Egypt -- Women's health issues as seen in Theban tomb 16 -- Shifting perceptions of tattooed women in ancient Egypt.