01092nam a22001817a 450000500170000000800410001702000230005804100080008108200190008910000160010824500550012425000120017926000450019130000310023650400160026752006150028365000120089820250922134533.0250922b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780859898263qhbk  ahbk  a932.02109bHAM  aHamer, Mary  aSigns Of Cleopatrab: reading an icon historically  a2nd ed.  aExeterbUniversity Of Exeter Pressc2008  axx, 172 p.b: ill.c24 cm.  aBib and Ref  aThe purpose of this book is to raise questions about how these images of a dead Egyptian queen were read. Through careful analysis Hamer traces attempts to manipulate attitudes to women and power, women and sexuality and to desire itself. In the case of Tiepolo’s Cleopatra, for example, the Queen embodies the desire for knowledge; in post-Revolutionary France, she symbolises political freedom. In the new introductory essay we discover that Cleopatra’s role as a focus for cultural debate continues, and that, as previously, much is at stake: it is now the question of her race that is highly contested.  aHistory