About the Book: Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy
"A breath-taking history of female sovereignty--Alison Weir
These are the stories of the female kings: women who defied convention and
sometimes risked everything to find their place in a mans world.
Female kings have always been a rarity, an oddity, or an undesirable outcome.
In almost all places throughout the world a male ruler was preferred to a woman,
with female inheritance vanishingly rare and frequently disputed. In spite of
this, women have secured crowns-or fought for them-over several millennia.
From the lush oases of Ancient Egypt