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Women & Power : A Manifesto

Author: Mary Beard, Professor Mary Beard
SKU: 9781788160612

Kshs 900.00

An updated edition of the Sunday Times BestsellerBritain’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. A year on since the advent of #metoo, Beard looks at how the discussions have moved on during this time, and how that intersects with issues of rape and consent, and the stories men tell themselves to support their actions. In trademark Beardian style, using examples ancient and modern, Beard argues, ‘it’s time for change – and now!’ From the author of international bestseller SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome.

  • Classifications: Social & cultural history,
  • Readership:General (US: Trade)
  • Format: Paperback softback 144 pages, black and white pictures throughout

ISBN : 9781788160612

Published : 1 Nov 2018

Author : Mary Beard, Professor Mary Beard

Main Material : Paperback softback

Publisher : Profile Books Ltd

Size : 111 x 178 x 12 (mm)

Weight : 112g

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