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The Woman Who Would Be King : Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Oneworld Publications, 2014Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (319 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781780746517
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 932.014092
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Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chronology -- Author's Note -- Preface -- One: Divine Origins -- Two: A Place of Her Own -- Three: King's Great Wife -- Four: Regent for a Baby King -- Five: The Climb Toward Kingship -- Six: Keeping the Kingship -- Seven: The King Becomes a Man -- Eight: The Setting Sun -- Nine: The King Is Dead -- Long Live the King -- Ten: Lost Legacy -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Image Section -- Index.
Summary: 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. At just twenty, Hatshepsut ascended to the rank of king in an elaborate coronation ceremony that set the tone for her spectacular twenty-two year reign as co-regent with Thutmose III, the infant king whose mother Hatshepsut out-maneuvered for a seat on the throne. 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.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chronology -- Author's Note -- Preface -- One: Divine Origins -- Two: A Place of Her Own -- Three: King's Great Wife -- Four: Regent for a Baby King -- Five: The Climb Toward Kingship -- Six: Keeping the Kingship -- Seven: The King Becomes a Man -- Eight: The Setting Sun -- Nine: The King Is Dead -- Long Live the King -- Ten: Lost Legacy -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Image Section -- Index.

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. At just twenty, Hatshepsut ascended to the rank of king in an elaborate coronation ceremony that set the tone for her spectacular twenty-two year reign as co-regent with Thutmose III, the infant king whose mother Hatshepsut out-maneuvered for a seat on the throne. 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.

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