Women & Power: A Manifesto - Hardcover

Beard, Professor Mary

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9781788160605: Women & Power: A Manifesto

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1788160606 ISBN 13: 9781788160605

Publisher: Profile Books, 2017

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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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Review:

With clearsightedness and wry humour, this self-described 'gobby woman' proves public speech is no longer the preserve of maleness. More power to her. (Laura Garmeson FT 2017-11-12)

A modern feminist classic (Rachel Cooke The Observer)

This book is a treasure, both as a fascinating read in itself and as a fine work of reference to correct our lazy misconceptions about an ancient world that still has much to instruct us today (Herald)

An urgent feminist cri de coeur, spot-on in its utterly reasonable plea that a woman 'who dares to open her mouth in public' actually be given a hearing. (Kirkus Reviews)

Brilliant. (Jacqueline Rose Guardian)

Enlightening ... explains how misogyny works and why it is so resilient (Elif Shafak Guardian)

A sparkling and forceful manifesto (New York Times)

Clear, rich, subversive and witty (San Francisco Chronicle)

Mary Beard has become something of a star when it comes to bringing classical history to life. She exposes the roots of today's expectations of how a woman should behave ... A small but wonderfully potent call to action. With references to mythological figures such as Perseus, Medusa, Philomela and Telemachus, she shows how often we've been told that "Speech will be the business of men" and that a woman who breaks this rule may risk having her tongue cut out. Time for change, she argues - and now! (Jenni Murray Guardian)

An irresistible call for women to speak up, act and redefine their power (People Magazine)

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Britain's most influential academic at her most polemical|Small, attractive hardback - perfect for gifting|Hardback of SPQR (9781846683800) has sold over 55k copies on BookScan and total sales of SPQR across both editions is over 155k.|Social media storm guaranteed

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