Women & Power: A Manifesto
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), Bear…
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- ISBN: 978-1-63149-475-8
- EAN: 9781631494758
- Produktnummer: 24939657
- Verlag: Liveright Pub Corp
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 128 S.
- Masse: H19.3 cm x B11.8 cm x D2.0 cm 191 g
- Gewicht: 191
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A professor of classics at Cambridge University, Mary Beard is the author of the best-selling SPQR and Women & Power and the National Book Critics Circle Award-nominated Confronting the Classics. A popular blogger and television personality, Beard is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books.
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