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Women & Power: A Manifesto

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Availability:In StockContributor:Mary BeardPublish date:2017-12-12Pages:128
Language:EnglishPublisher:Liveright Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9781631494758ISBN-10:1631494759UPC:9781631494758Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Women, Women's Studies, Feminism & Feminist TheorySize:7.56 x 4.75 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4211Product ID:SC0GNJX2CX
At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack and demean women the world over, including, very often, Mary herself. In Women & Power, she traces the origins of this misogyny to its ancient roots, examining the pitfalls of gender and the ways that history has mistreated strong women since time immemorial. As far back as Homer's Odyssey, Beard shows, women have been prohibited from leadership roles in civic life, public speech being defined as inherently male. From Medusa to Philomela (whose tongue was cut out), from Hillary Clinton to Elizabeth Warren (who was told to sit down), Beard draws illuminating parallels between our cultural assumptions about women's relationship to power--and how powerful women provide a necessary example for all women who must resist being vacuumed into a male template. With personal reflections on her own online experiences with sexism, Beard asks: If women aren't perceived to be within the structure of power, isn't it power itself we need to redefine? And how many more centuries should we be expected to wait?
Language:EnglishPublisher:Liveright Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9781631494758ISBN-10:1631494759UPC:9781631494758Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Women, Women's Studies, Feminism & Feminist TheorySize:7.56 x 4.75 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4211Product ID:SC0GNJX2CX
Beard, Mary: - A professor of classics at Cambridge University, Mary Beard is the author of the best-selling SPQR and Women & Power and the National Book Critics Circle Award-nominated Confronting the Classics. A popular blogger and television personality, Beard is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books.
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