When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt - Kara Cooney
Language: EnglishKeywords:
cleopatra
Hatshepsut
Merneith
Nefertiti
Neferusobek
Tawosret
Women Studies
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Written by
Read by Kara Cooney
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Release date: November 30, 2018
Duration: 09:15:43
This riveting narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra-women who ruled with real power-and shines a piercing light on our own perceptions of women in power today.
Female rulers are a rare phenomenon today –but thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt, women reigned supreme. Regularly, repeatedly, and with impunity, queens like Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, and Cleopatra controlled the totalitarian state as power brokers and rulers. But throughout human history, women in positions of power were more often used as political pawns in a male-dominated society. What was so special about ancient Egypt that provided women this kind of access to the highest political office? What was it about these women that allowed them to transcend patriarchal obstacles? What did Egypt gain from its liberal reliance on female leadership, and could today’s world learn from its example?
Celebrated Egyptologist Kara Cooney delivers a fascinating tale of female power, exploring the reasons why it has seldom been allowed through the ages, and why we should care.
Library Journal….Cooney (Egyptology, Univ. of California Los Angeles explores the premise that “the ancient Egyptians brilliantly used female power…to keep a culture going for more than 3,000 years” through the prism of six queens who assumed kingship to varying degrees at times of dynastic crisis. Included are profiles of Merneith of Dynasty I (3000-2890 BCE), Neferusobek of Dynasty XII (1985-1773 BCE), Hatshepsut and Nefertiti of Dynasty XVIII (1550-1295 BCE), Tawosret of Dynsty XIX (1295-1186 BCE), and Cleopatra VII of the Ptolemaic Period (305-30 BCE). Despite ancient Egyptian society promoting greater gender equality than its contemporaries, each of these queens was compelled to manifest certain masculine trappings in order to succeed. …. VERDICT Not since Leonard Cottrell’s Lady of the Two Lands (1966) has such an engrossing, well-researched collective study of Egyptian power queens been available. Definitively recommended for anyone with an interest in ancient Egyptian civilization or women’s studies.–
A note about women and power…during the height of the Korean War in the 1950’s someone asked Bishop Fulton Sheen on his television show, “How do we stop wars?” There is no simple answer but he gave this to consider…Elect women to positions of authority. It takes a woman 19 years to make a life; she doesn’t want it gone in one second.
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This post has 19 comments with rating of 5/5
July 11th, 2021
Ahhh, crazy cat ladies…
:)
July 11th, 2021
Thanks, Jo - Caesar’s on a serious Egyptian kick right now; so this is like the proverbial manna from jo (c wot I did there?).
And that wise appendix has a certain Sheen to it (c wot I did there?).
July 11th, 2021
That appendix was fine in the 1950’s but Margaret Thatcher put paid to that dream in the 80’s.
And let’s not forget Joan of Arc and Queen Boudica, to name but two others. Women can get mean if you don’t let them have their morning coffee.
July 11th, 2021
We can’t write an entire sex off cos of Maggie.
As for Joan & Boudica - there was a great deal of injustice & oppression in the historical mix.
An Aristotelian balance in all things, say I. One can’t be too Golden Mean.
July 11th, 2021
Anti-Celtic injustice & oppression, I might add, in another sagacious appendix.
July 11th, 2021
Darn it. You are very persuasive.
July 11th, 2021
Ban all women because of Marge.
And ban all men because of Ronald.
Can’t trust any of them
July 11th, 2021
That’s what I’ve persuaded myself. I find my arguments to be quite convincing, on the ‘hole.
July 11th, 2021
@howlafist - Are you howlingly suggesting that the governance of all the lands is 2 b turned over 2 dodgy wood sprites, and the like, “powdered with the pollen of the frosty, starry night?” That’s a proper howler, if u don’t mind me averring (I love a good aver).
We might have an angelic option, given that those lads & lasses are not strictly gendered, as Caesar understandeth it.
July 12th, 2021
That might also make for an acceptable solution, but slime moulds would be ideal.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/brainless-slime-mould-makes-decisions-like-humans
July 12th, 2021
Or trees? Trees help each other like gangbusters. And “I think that I shall never see” and so forth. So they’ll look great in the campaign ads.
Not sure that I could vote for slime mould. Not again, at any rate. That’s been our only option, heretofore & for the foreseeable.
July 12th, 2021
Ah hmm, i wonder yes, if there might be a feasible approach to encoding decision making into a network of trees, possibly through mycorrhizal networks, though a clonal colony of aspen or so might be more convenient, genetic edits being inherited.
Of course it would be slow, but reasoned impartiality is worth waiting for. “It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say”.
July 12th, 2021
You seem abundantly capable of addressing the technical challenges - both root & branch. Unless they can be overcome, the Ent-ire project is (Ent)moot.
Not sure how impartial the blighters will be; when it comes to divvying up the spoils, they might be tree-mendously biased, “leaving” us with the sweepings & dregs, while they sap resources & rake it in - kicking it @ the beech.
Added to that, their delivery, tone & timbre may be insufferably wooden, as they polish their “budding” rhetorical efforts & bark orders. The whole rooting system could splinter & crack.
Oaky-dokey then, I’ve pun-ished you enough, so I’ll leave you pining. You’ll be sycamore if I continue.
July 13th, 2021
You guys are a hoot!!!!!!
Love it……..J
July 13th, 2021
@jodindy What can we do without you! thanks for the magic. Egypt is absolutely magical civilization.
July 27th, 2021
*blinks*
Some ‘not normal’ people going on here … just shouldn’t be allowed …
August 11th, 2021
Please seed :)
December 3rd, 2022
Please seed
February 9th, 2025
seed anyone?
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