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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 Thought-Provoking
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Totally, beautifully, eloquently sums up our lot. I love hearing books read by the author.

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A brilliant and brutally honest assessment of the gender divides and their historical roots. Admittedly there is an absence of intersectionalism, however, this is a perspective piece which is wonderfully delivered.

Impassioned and eloquent

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This was very interesting, knowledgeable, and very thought provoking book. It was a pleasure to listen to.

Very interesting

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It has become a little bit outdated because of frequent references to the then current events (e.g Clinton). However, many bits very informative and revealing. For example, I had no idea that Sojourner Truth's original 1851 speech never even included the iconic phrase 'Ain't I a woman?'. Recommendable, short read.

Intersting.

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a fascinating listen, a must in modern days for all genders and ages !

a fascinating listen!

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