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Women & Power

A Manifesto

by Mary Beard
language: english
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd, November of 2018 ‧
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An updated edition of the Sunday Times Bestseller

Britain'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!'
>br> From the author of international bestseller SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome.

Women & Power

A Manifesto

by Mary Beard

Property Description
ISBN: 9781788160612
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Release Date: November of 2018
Language: English
Dimensions: 111 x 180 x 9 mm
Pages: 144
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > History > General History
EAN: 9781788160612

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mary Beard

Mary Beard é uma das classicistas mais originais e reconhecidas da atualidade. É professora na Universidade de Cambridge e membro da Newnham College, onde leciona desde 1984. Também é professora de literatura antiga na Royal Academy, É editora do Times Literary Supplement, membro da British Academy e membro internacional da Academia Americana de Artes e Ciências. Recebeu o Wolfson History Prize, a Bodley Medal, o Prémio Princesa das Astúrias para Ciência Social e a Getty Medal. Além de ter escrito artigos sobre história antiga e arqueologia e de apresentar documentarios da BBC sobre história romana e arte, é autora de vários livros da mesma área, tais como SPQR: Uma História da Roma Antiga e Doze Césares.

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