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Women & Power: A Manifesto

By: Mary Beard
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An updated edition of the Sunday Times best seller.

Britain's best known classicist, Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. In Women & Power she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women, using examples ranging from the classical world to the modern day. 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, in a new afterword, Beard reflects on the successes and the future of that movement, probing the narratives of rape and consent. She asks about the stories men tell themselves to justify their treatment of women. Which stories endure, and who controls them? With wry wit Beard argues it's time for change.

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

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©2017 Mary Beard (P)2017 Hachette Audio UK Gender Studies Social Sciences
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This is simply a great book. Mary Beard’s narration is also excellent. The issues she discusses are of critical importance and her wide-ranging knowledge of history gives her analysis a powerful perspective.

Brilliant analysis

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would have lived it if this actually suggested "how" rather than just the what and a pattern in history

I think I already know

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Mary Beard holds the bronze mirror of ancient history narrative to the ugly face of modern power and politics to probe the ways men in power keep women powerless. Bravo professor, a wonderful honest, vulnerable and unfliching look at the patriarchy. Thank you for this book. book

must listen for all

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Mary is delightful no matter the format! highly recommend for lovers of history definitely a must for young girls

brilliant

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