The Woman Who Would Be King by Kara Cooney

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.Hatshepsut had successfully negotiated a path from the royal nursery to the very pinnacle of authority, and her reign saw one of Ancient Egypt’s most prolific building periods. Hatshepsut was a master strategist, cloaking her political power plays with the veil of piety and sexual expression.

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. 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. Married to her brother, she was expected to bear the sons who would legitimize the reign of her father’s family. 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. You can read this before The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Īn engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power in a man’s world.

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The Woman Who Would Be King by Kara Cooney