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Women & Power

A Manifesto
By Professor Mary Beard
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The Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller 24 consecutive weeks in the Sunday Times Top 10 Why the popular resonance of mansplaining (despite the intense dislike of the term felt by many men)? It hits home for us because it points straight to what it feels like... Read More
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Number One Sunday Times BestsellerThe gender agenda revisited by Britain's best-known classicist, Mary Beard

CELEBRATING TEN YEARS OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NO 1. BESTSELLER

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The Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller

24 consecutive weeks in the Sunday Times Top 10

Why the popular resonance of mansplaining (despite the intense dislike of the term felt by many men)? It hits home for us because it points straight to what it feels like not to be taken seriously: a bit like when I get lectured on Roman history on Twitter.

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.

With personal reflections on her own experiences of the sexism and gendered aggression she has endured online, Mary asks: if women aren't perceived to be within the structures of power, isn't it power that we need to redefine?

From the author of international bestseller SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome.

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ISBN: 9781806492862

Publisher: Profile Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 October 2026

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: 112g

Pages: 144

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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 most recently SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, and the bestselling, Wolfson Prize-winning Pompeii, The Roman Triumph, 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.

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