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To Debate the Status of Women in Ancient Egypt—Investigation Based on Litigation

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DOI: 10.23977/law.2024.030511 | Downloads: 5 | Views: 135

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Xinbo He 1

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1 School of History and Culture, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China

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Xinbo He

ABSTRACT

In domestic Egyptology academic circle, the analysis of the status of women in ancient Egypt is usually carried out from the aspects of family, social and political status, but rarely takes the legal status as the starting point. However, in the research results on the legal status of women in ancient Egypt, the academic circle focuses on the substantive rights of life and health, property inheritance and marriage autonomy, but ignores that women also enjoy the procedural rights such as the right of action and testimony to a certain extent. Based on the cases recorded in the original historical materials, this paper tries to further examine the legal rights enjoyed by ancient Egyptian women, and to promote the in-depth cognition and rational discrimination of the status of ancient Egyptian women.

KEYWORDS

Ancient Egypt; women's status; litigation; right of action; procedural justice

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Xinbo He, To Debate the Status of Women in Ancient Egypt—Investigation Based on Litigation. Science of Law Journal (2024) Vol. 3: 75-79. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/DOI: 10.23977/law.2024.030511.

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