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Women & Power
Mary Beard
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Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft / Allgemeines, Lexika
Beschreibung
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!'
From the author of international bestseller SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome.
Rezensionen
A modern feminist classic
An irresistible call for women to speak up, act and redefine their power
Dynamically, wittily and authoritatively brings the ancient world to life
Selected as one of the 100 best books of the 21st century: An instant feminist classic
Brilliant
Vastly engaging ... a tremendously enjoyable and scholarly read
... exposes the roots of today'
With such a champion as Beard to debunk and popularise, the future of the study of classics is assured
This book is a treasure, both as a fascinating read in itself and as a fine work of reference to correct our lazy misconceptions about an ancient world that still has much to instruct us today
Masterful ... This is exemplary popular history, engaging but never dumbed down, providing both the grand sweep and the intimate details that bring the distant past vividly to life
Ground-breaking ... invigorating ... revolutionary ... a whole new approach to ancient history
Sustaining the energy that such a topic demands for more than 600 pages, while providing a coherent answer to the question of why Rome expanded so spectacularly, is hugely ambitious. Beard succeeds triumphantly ... full of insights and delights ... <i>SPQR</i> is consistently enlivened by Beard'
A sparkling and forceful manifesto
Enlightening ... explains how misogyny works and why it is so resilient
<p><b>Praise for Mary Beard: </b><br><br>'She's pulled off that rare trick of becoming a don with a high media profile who hasn'
An urgent feminist cri de coeur, spot-on in its utterly reasonable plea that a woman 'who dares to open her mouth in public'
An irrepressible enthusiast with a refreshing disregard for convention
With clearsightedness and wry humour, this self-described 'gobby woman'
<p><b>Praise for SPQR:</b><br><br>Fast-moving, exciting, psychologically acute, warmly sceptical - Bryan Appleyard</p>
Clear, rich, subversive and witty
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