Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Introduction -- I The case for Thebes -- II Gender and feminist archaeology in the study of ancient Egyptian women -- III Structure of book -- 1 Tradition, innovation and a search for Egyptian identity in the Third Intermediate Period -- Introduction -- I Tradition and innovation -- Kingship -- Religion -- Art -- Burial practices -- II Tradition, innovation and women -- 2 Rank, status and axes of identity -- Introduction -- I Axes of identity -- II Titles in Egyptology -- III Corpus of elite female titles -- Titles of rank (non-regular, "honourific" titles) -- Titles of occupation (regular, function titles) -- IV Distribution of titles in corpora -- V Titles and familial affiliations -- VI Discussion and comparanda -- Third Intermediate Period -- New Kingdom -- Middle Kingdom -- First Intermediate Period and Old Kingdom -- VII Concluding remarks -- 3 Materiality, memory and the mortuary landscape of Thebes -- Introduction -- I Examining mortuary landscapes -- II Burial practices in the Theban Necropolis -- Temple reuse -- Tomb reuse -- New constructions -- III Administration of Theban Necropolis in the Third Intermediate Period -- IV Female agency outside of Thebes -- V The Theban mortuary landscape and elite female identity expressions -- 4 The symbolic economy of mortuary practices -- Introduction -- I Typical burial assemblage of the period -- Coffins -- Stelae -- Ushabtis and containers -- Canopic jars -- Funerary papyri -- Miscellaneous items -- II Value of assemblage -- Tombs dataset -- Objects dataset -- III The economics of burial -- IV Capital and the creation of status and identity -- Capital -- Capital and status in elite female burial practices -- Conclusion: Women, gender and status in Thebes of the eighth-sixth centuries BCE -- Bibliography