Women & Power
A Manifesto
Why the popular resonance of 'mansplaining' (despite the intense dislike of the term felt by many men)? It hits home for us because it points straight to what it feels like not to be taken seriously: a bit like when I get lectured on Roman history on Twitter.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 Elizabeth Warren. Beard explores the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, considering the public voice of wo…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78816-060-5
- EAN: 9781788160605
- Produktnummer: 24217487
- Verlag: Profile Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 128 S.
- Masse: H18.6 cm x B12.3 cm x D1.8 cm 201 g
- Abbildungen: black and white pictures
- Gewicht: 201
Über den Autor
Mary Beard is a professor of classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and the Classics editor of the TLS. She has world-wide academic acclaim, and is a fellow of the British Academy and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her previous books include most recently SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, and the bestselling, Wolfson Prize-winning Pompeii, The Roman Triumph, also The Parthenon and Confronting the Classics. Her blog has been collected in the books It's a Don's Life and All in a Don's Day.
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