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082			_a932.02109 _bHAM
100			_aHamer, Mary
245			_aSigns Of Cleopatra _b: reading an icon historically
250			_a2nd ed.
260			_aExeter _bUniversity Of Exeter Press _c2008
300			_axx, 172 p. _b: ill. _c24 cm.
504			_aBib and Ref
520			_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.
650			_aHistory
942			_cENGLISH
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