An updated edition of the Sunday Times Bestseller
We have to retell stories of women's power,re-evaluate what power is.
Acclaimed classicist Mary Beard presents a revolutionary manifesto for our time,exploring women in power from Medusa to Merkel and presenting a new feminist roadmap. Hard-hitting,unapologetic and wise.
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.
With personal reflections on her own experiences of the sexism and gendered aggression she has endured online,Mary asks: if women aren't perceived to be within the structures of power,isn't it power that we need to redefine
Publisher: Profile Books LtdISBN: 9781788160612Number of pages: 144Weight: 114 gDimensions: 178 x 110 x 20 mmEdition: Main
MEDIA REVIEWS
'With clearsightedness and wry humour,this self-described'gobby woman'proves public speech is no longer the preserve of maleness. More power to her.'- Laura Garmeson,The Financial Times
'A modern feminist classic.'- Rachel Cooke, The Observer
Praise for Mary Beard:
'She's pulled off that rare trick of becoming a don with a high media profile who hasn't sold out,who is absolutely respected by the academy for her scholarship...what she says is always powerful and interesting'- The Guardian
'An irrepressible enthusiast with a refreshing disregard for convention.'- The Financial Times
'With such a champion as Beard to debunk and popularise,the future of the study of classics is assured.'- The Daily Telegraph
'Dynamically,wittily and authoritatively brings the ancient world to life.'- Simon Sebag Montefiore
Praise for SPQR:
'Fast-moving,exciting,psychologically acute,warmly sceptical'- Bryan Appleyard, The Sunday Times
'Vastly engaging...a tremendously enjoyable and scholarly read.'-Natalie Haynes,The Observer
'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...SPQR is consistently enlivened by Beard's eye for detail and her excellent sense of humour.'-The Sunday Times
Mary Beard
Arguably Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard is a Professor of Classics at Cambridge University and classics editor of the TLS. Amongst her best known publications are SPQR,Pompeii (accompanying the BBC television series of the same name),Confronting the Classics and It's a Don's Life (based on her regular column for The Times.
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