Hatshepsut, the daughter of a general who took Egypt's throne
without status as a king's son and a mother with ties to the
previous dynasty, was born into a privileged position of the royal
household. Married to her brother, she was expected to bear the
sons who would legitimize the reign of her father's family. Her
failure to produce a male heir was ultimately the twist of fate
that paved the way for her inconceivable rule as a cross-dressing
king. Hatshepsut was a master strategist, cloaking her political
power plays with the veil of piety and sexual expression. Just as
women today face obstacles from a society that equates authority
with masculinity, Hatshepsut had to shrewdly operate the levers of
a patriarchal system to emerge as Egypt's second female pharaoh.
Scholars have long speculated as to why her images were destroyed
soon after her death, all but erasing evidence of her rule.
Constructing a rich narrative using the artifacts that remain,
noted Egyptologist Kara Cooney offers a remarkable interpretation
of how Hatshepsut rapidly but methodically consolidated power-and
why she fell from public favor just as quickly.
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