TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hamer, Mary
TI  - Signs Of Cleopatra: : reading an icon historically
SN  - 9780859898263
U1  - 932.02109 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Exeter
PB  - University Of Exeter Press
KW  - History
N1  - Bib and Ref
N2  - The 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
ER  -