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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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I really enjoyed Mary as always, her narration and story telling are wonderful. She always gives you a new insight and challenges our perceptions.

excellent and thoughtful

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compulsive listening. I will be listening to this again, almost too much to take in at one hearing.

Excellent

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This excellent book with two lectures and some later reflections was a hugely erudite and interesting listen. Punching well above it’s word count in content and ideas, Beard once again makes expansive ideas and reflections both accessible and relevant. A listen not just for “feminists”. Also lovely to hear it in her own voice.

A reflective and fascinating listen

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A thought provoking, resonating autobiographical insight into the thought and experience of a scholar. Fearless declaration of the difficulties one faces being on the outside and simultaneously being on the inside.

PGCert reading Cambridge

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

a fascinating listen!

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I wish the men in my life would all read this from cover to cover!

Essential reading for all

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This is incredible, passionately written and mixing the historical with the modern, it raises brilliant and interesting points about the representation and perception of women and women with power throughout history, Mary Beard talks about how how our language and perceptions are still incredibly unequal when it comes to women and how we are perceived. This is worth a read, and definitely worth listening to as an audiobook as the passion in Mary's voice comes through in her reading of her work. Not only did I listen to this in two days but I will definitely be listening to it again. Wonderful, fantastic, brilliant and cleverly written to address issues that are still part of our societies

Brilliant, informative and passionate

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

Outstanding

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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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