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Historian Williams examines the role of sexism in a thorough look at 3,000 years of female rulers whose power, she writes, is often “erased, compromised and twisted by words and images.” Royal women are either “feted beyond measure as warrior queens, saints or fairy princesses or castigated as monsters, sexual obsessives, feminine failures.” Williams considers dozens of reigns, discerning a…

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