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Women & Power
A Manifesto
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A year on from the allegations against Harvey Weinstein and the beginnings of #metoo movement Mary Beard revisits the gender agenda with new material on rape, consent and how the discussion has moved on.
A year on from the allegations against Harvey Weinstein and the beginnings of #metoo movement Mary Beard revisits the gender agenda with new material on rape, consent and how the discussion has moved on.
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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 the international bestseller SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome.
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Women & Power by Professor Mary Beard has been praised as a modern feminist classic and a powerful manifesto. Critics highlight Beard's wit and insightful analysis of misogyny, urging a change in societal expectations of women's behaviour. The book is celebrated for its compelling argument that women should be empowered to speak out and redefine their role in public life.
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ISBN: 9781788160612
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 November 2018
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Profile Books Ltd
Edition: Main
Illustration: black and white pictures throughout
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 110.0mm
Height: 176.0mm
Weight: 120g
Pages: 144
About the Author
Mary Beard is a professor of classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and the Classics editor of the TLS. She has world-wide academic acclaim, and is a fellow of the British Academy and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her previous books include Civilisations: How We look / The Eye of Faith, the international bestseller SPQR, and the bestselling, Wolfson Prize-winning Pompeii, and also The Parthenon and Confronting the Classics. Her blog has been collected in the books It's a Don's Life and All in a Don's Day. All these books are published by Profile.
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