Women & Power: A Manifesto (Unabridged) Women & Power: A Manifesto (Unabridged)

Women & Power: A Manifesto (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

New York Times Bestseller

One of the Guardian's "100 Best Books of the 21st Century" — "A modern feminist classic."

From the internationally acclaimed classicist and New York Times best-selling author comes this timely manifesto on women and power.


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?

GENRE
History
NARRATOR
MB
Mary Beard
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
01:35
hr min
RELEASED
2019
May 21
PUBLISHER
Random House Audio
SIZE
95.4
MB

Customer Reviews

Mattzart ,

Recommend Oh-So-Very-Highly

I’m male and I’m not sure where the “man hater” bile I’ve read in other reviews comes from. This is a beautifully constructed essay that examines the complexities of a dynamic that has had and will continue to have a profound impact on our social and cultural world. Whether you agree or vehemently disagree with the thesis, any listener/reader who approaches this work in good faith will come away having had their own perceptions challenged and enriched. Mary Beard is a marvelous reader and witty commentator—so I found experience sometimes funny, often unsettling, and always satisfying.

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