Author: Mary Beard
File Type: epub
A modern feminist classic.The GuardianFrom 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 Homers 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 womens relationship to powerand 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 arent perceived to be within the structure of power, isnt it power itself we need to redefine? And how many more centuries should we be expected to wait?**ReviewTroll slayer. - The New Yorker Battling back her antagonists [Beard has become] something of a folk hero. - New York Times What she says is always powerful and interesting. - Guardian A Cambridge professor and a television lecturer of irresistible salty charm. - New York Times Book Review An irrepressible enthusiast with a refreshing disregard for convention. - Financial TimesAbout the Author Mary Beard is the author of multiple books, including the NBCC finalist Confronting the Classics, and most recently, the best-selling SPQR. A popular blogger and television personality and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, Beard is a professor of classics at the University of Cambridge.