Women & Power: A Manifesto book by Mary Beard
By Mary BeardWomen & Power: A Manifesto book by Mary Beard
Britain’s best known classicist, Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit she shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from Medusa and Athena to Theresa May and Elizabeth Warren as she explores the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, considering the public voice of women, how we look at women who exercise power, our cultural assumptions about women’s relationship with power, and how powerful women resist being packaged into a male template.
With personal reflections on her own experiences of sexism online and the gendered violence she has endured as a woman in the public eye, Beard asks: If women aren’t perceived to be fully within the structures of power, isn’t it power we need to redefine?
Book details
- Paperback
- 115 pages
- English
- 1788160606
- 9781788160605
About Mary Beard
winifred mary beard (born 1 january 1955) is professor of classics at the university of cambridge and is a fellow of newnham college. she is the classics e Read More about Mary Beard
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