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Title: THE WOMAN WHO WOULD BE KING
HATSHEPSUT'S RISE TO POWER IN ANCIENT EGYPT
By: Kara Cooney
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 1780747667
ISBN 13: 9781780747668
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Publisher: ONEWORLD PUBLICATIONS
Pub. date: 2 July, 2015
Pages: 320
Description: The audacious rise to power of a female pharaoh in a man's world
Synopsis: Hatshepsut, the daughter of a general who took Egypt's throne without status as a king's son and a mother with ties to the previous dynasty, was born into a privileged position of the royal household. Married to her brother, she was expected to bear the sons who would legitimize the reign of her father's family. Her failure to produce a male heir was ultimately the twist of fate that paved the way for her inconceivable rule as a cross-dressing king. Hatshepsut was a master strategist, cloaking her political power plays with the veil of piety and sexual expression. Just as women today face obstacles from a society that equates authority with masculinity, Hatshepsut had to shrewdly operate the levers of a patriarchal system to emerge as Egypt's second female pharaoh. Scholars have long speculated as to why her images were destroyed soon after her death, all but erasing evidence of her rule. Constructing a rich narrative using the artifacts that remain, noted Egyptologist Kara Cooney offers a remarkable interpretation of how Hatshepsut rapidly but methodically consolidated power-and why she fell from public favor just as quickly.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Oneworld Publications
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