Egiptologija, rod i seksualnost: kritička perspektiva
Egyptology, Gender and Sexuality: Critical Perspective

Summary/Abstract: Egyptology appropriated gender and sexuality studies relatively late in comparison to archaeology. Th is paper is not as much a history of research in gender and sexuality as a critical note on deficiencies and potentials of gender and sexuality studies in Egyptology. Th e introductory part introduces gender studies in archaeology with key theoretical concepts which are in the continuation of the paper discussed in comparison to their place in Egyptological studies of gender. Criticism of androcentrism and the question of (in)visibility of women were discussed as starting points of early gender research in archaeology, surely infl uencing Egyptological research. Th e paper points to a lack of gender history of the discipline as a consequence of general Egyptological resistance to theory, necessary for every serious research, but it also points to the lack of critical reflexivity towards the history of the discipline. Th e categories of sex and gender are discussed with a special attention to their research potential in Egyptology: in destabilisation of heteronormativity in research of the past as much as in more an more present aversion towards potential binary deffi nitions of sex/gender in the past. Binary gender norms do not necessarily also mean heteronormativity, as argued in queer theory. Heteronormativity calls for a series of identity categories and practices of signification completely alien to ancient Egypt. Th e last part of the paper discusses the influence of queer theory on archaeological and Egyptological research of the past.

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