IMHICIHU   13380
INSTITUTO MULTIDISCIPLINARIO DE HISTORIA Y CIENCIAS HUMANAS
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Gender and Power Relationships: A Revision of the Role of Queenship during the Coregency of Hatshepsut and Tuthmose III (c. 1479-1458 BC)
Autor/es:
VIRGINIA LAPORTA
Lugar:
Birmingham
Reunión:
Congreso; Current Research in Egyptology (CRE) XIII; 2012
Institución organizadora:
Birmingham University
Resumen:
The lack of male heirs to the throne of Egypt is closely related to the new role of Queenship during the very beginning of the Eighteenth Dynasty (c. 1550-1292 BC). I shall examine this new role through the royal figure of Hatshepsut (c. 1479-1458 BC), a queen descendant of the Ahmoside as well as the Thutmoside royal lines, who altered her position of regent queen of the underage Thutmose III to become a co-ruler “king”. Nevertheless, she was usually represented as the only king. Thus, I consider the royal unique figure splits and the male Horus –Thutmose III– resulted to be shadowed by the presence of a female enthroned king, Hatshepsut. Traditionally considered as usurpation and taken of advantage from the queen/king –and co-ruler– over the underage male king, I consider the situation can be analyzed from another perspective. Thus, I propose to revise the co-regency of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III through gender analysis and a review of the established power relationships based upon two major research strategies: (1) a theoretical analysis of the cultural concept of gender and the construction of power relations, and (2) a re-examination of surviving evidence (textual, iconographic, and architectonic) related to Hatshepsut`s role of Queenship.