Reviews for Careers of Couples in Contemporary Societies From Male Breadwinner to Dual Earner Families

The average rating for Careers of Couples in Contemporary Societies From Male Breadwinner to Dual Earner Families based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-08-03 00:00:00 George Hutchcraft I enjoy a good lecture turned into a readable document, particularly when it originally occurred during the early part of Egyptological history. This biddy book is something to that effect, though it examines way too much Graeco-Roman Egypt rather than Old, Middle, or New Kingdom Egypt (even the latter Kingdom, with its Nubian styled wigs, Syria-Palestine deities, and Hittite weapons of war like the chariot and composite bow, all of which were generally unEgyptian). As with early period Egyptological lectures/books, the terminology and writing/speaking style is very much varied from modern colloquial English. I’d recommend anyone read this, but only if that person is used to the style of writing of this period, otherwise it is sure to become an annoyingly tedious and confusing book. I found the terminology a bit unusual, but no completely terrible: by that I mean some of the names of certain deities and objects associated with certain ones. For example, the author uses “basilisk” instead of the more recent and probably ubiquitous “uraeus,” both describing the snake that appears on the headdress of many deities and most Egyptian rulers (kings/pharaohs). Other differences in wording are Themei (Ma’at) and “globe” (solar disk or sun disk). There are just a couple of glaring mistakes that only a trained professional would notice (which is something to be expected in reading old resources; the author falls into what he calls an “unsafe authority” himself because of the era in which he gave his lecture). Typhon is not the same as the composite deity Ammit: Typhon is actually the theophany of Seth, god of chaos, who sometimes appears in this form. Typhon may also have been a separate deity, with associations to Seth, but it is certainly not the same as the crocodile-headed, lion-forequartered, hippopotamus-behinded Ammit, eater of souls. The other mistake consists of a misinterpretation of why Horus (the child…there are many other Horus deities, one being Horus the Elder/of Edfu) was called the “stopper of snakes.” The author states that this is so because of his father’s (Osiris’) being the destroyer of the god-snake Apep, which is quite unfounded, as it is Re (or Ra) who is the slayer of Apep, for it is he who travels the dark and creepy underworld where Apep resides, waiting for Re to come so he can deter him from bringing the sun to its morning horizon. Horus is the Stopper of Snakes because of his mishap as a child, which is recounted in the Death of Osiris, where Horus, having been hidden by his mother Isis for days in the Nile marsh, from his uncle Seth (Osiris’ foul and jealous brother), the babe Horus is stung by scorpions and bit by snakes. The scorpion goddess Selket (and in other versions of the story, Hathor) saves his life. Ever since then, he was endowed with protecting others in whatever mishap they find themselves (in some cases, when someone is stung or bit by a scorpion. I found great knowledge in reading this lecture, not that I didn’t already know most of the content within but because I might just use some particulars in finishing my novel, which is set during Egyptology’s early history. In short, it’s a great read if one is a writer writing a book set during the period in which this was penned. As an extension of that, it’s very interesting to see how proper names (like the names of certain Egyptian deities) and places (both ancient, classical, and modern) were spelled during the early part of Egyptology. Alas, something a writer of Egyptological fiction could use. Even though it is immensely fun to read, I wouldn’t use it as a reference for anything overly scholastic, only because there are many historical inaccuracies that time has corrected.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-11-05 00:00:00 Athena Nicholas Excellent book for insight into why people become thieves, what it's actually like to be a safecracker and a fence. Highly recommended.