Home › Books › When Women Ruled the World

When Women Ruled the World

লেখক / Author: Kara Cooney

Premium Hardcover: ৳390 | Premium Paperback: ৳290

Buy When Women Ruled the World in Bangladesh at Booksferi.Com. Price ৳290 (BDT). Home delivery all over Bangladesh, Cash on Delivery.

This riveting paperback explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra, and shines a piercing light on perceptions of powerful women today. Female rulers are a rare phenomenon--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 male-dominated societies. Why did ancient Egypt provide 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…

Publisher: National Geographic

Pages: 399

Language: en

ISBN-13: 9781426219771

ISBN-10: 1426219776