Women & Power
A Manifesto
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Publisher Description
An updated edition of the Sunday Times Bestseller
Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from the classical world to the modern day, from Medusa and Athena to Theresa May and Hillary Clinton. Beard explores the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, considering the public voice of women, our cultural assumptions about women's relationship with power, and how powerful women resist being packaged into a male template.
A year on since the advent of #metoo, Beard looks at how the discussions have moved on during this time, and how that intersects with issues of rape and consent, and the stories men tell themselves to support their actions. In trademark Beardian style, using examples ancient and modern, Beard argues, 'it's time for change - and now!'
From the author of international bestseller SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome.
Customer Reviews
This is not feminism
My grandmother was a suffragette and she died ten years ago. She would be devastated to see what millennial women think feminism is about. This is coarse and vile. Feminism is about
EQUALITY
female superiority is no better than patriarchy and that is not real feminism.
The suffrage movement lived and died to get equality not to get female superiority which is just as vile as male superiority