Cleopatra in the News: Pop Culture Creates New Heroines

"Cleopatra is kind of the perfect modern American woman even though she is not modern and she is not American"
-Bob Thompson

Pop Culture Creates New Heroines by Luisita Lopez Torregrosa appeared December 21, 2010 in The New York Times. This article examines how women have been portrayed in the media. The second part of the article focuses solely on how Cleopatra is the new role model for the modern American woman.

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