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Women & Power: A Manifesto
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
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Summary
An updated edition of the Sunday Times best seller.
Britain's best known classicist, Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. In Women & Power she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women, using examples ranging from the classical world to the modern day. 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, in a new afterword, Beard reflects on the successes and the future of that movement, probing the narratives of rape and consent. She asks about the stories men tell themselves to justify their treatment of women. Which stories endure, and who controls them? With wry wit Beard argues it's time for change.
From the author of international best seller SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome.
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- Anonymous User
- 17-11-24
excellent and thoughtful
I really enjoyed Mary as always, her narration and story telling are wonderful. She always gives you a new insight and challenges our perceptions.
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- Ruth Soames
- 05-09-20
Excellent
compulsive listening. I will be listening to this again, almost too much to take in at one hearing.
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- Juliana
- 16-03-21
Very interesting
This was very interesting, knowledgeable, and very thought provoking book. It was a pleasure to listen to.
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- Emilis
- 10-01-22
Must read for all men
This book gives great insight into how our current modern society and the deep sexism imbedded therein traces back to Ancient Greece and Rome.
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- Emily Mountain
- 11-02-20
A reflective and fascinating listen
This excellent book with two lectures and some later reflections was a hugely erudite and interesting listen. Punching well above it’s word count in content and ideas, Beard once again makes expansive ideas and reflections both accessible and relevant. A listen not just for “feminists”. Also lovely to hear it in her own voice.
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- Iyare
- 04-11-21
PGCert reading Cambridge
A thought provoking, resonating autobiographical insight into the thought and experience of a scholar. Fearless declaration of the difficulties one faces being on the outside and simultaneously being on the inside.
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- Ms. L. J. Pantrey
- 16-07-20
Impassioned and eloquent
A brilliant and brutally honest assessment of the gender divides and their historical roots. Admittedly there is an absence of intersectionalism, however, this is a perspective piece which is wonderfully delivered.
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- John Gonzalez
- 16-05-21
a fascinating listen!
a fascinating listen, a must in modern days for all genders and ages !
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- Anonymous User
- 24-02-20
Essential reading for all
I wish the men in my life would all read this from cover to cover!
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- Rachael Ross
- 05-03-21
Brilliant, informative and passionate
This is incredible, passionately written and mixing the historical with the modern, it raises brilliant and interesting points about the representation and perception of women and women with power throughout history, Mary Beard talks about how how our language and perceptions are still incredibly unequal when it comes to women and how we are perceived. This is worth a read, and definitely worth listening to as an audiobook as the passion in Mary's voice comes through in her reading of her work. Not only did I listen to this in two days but I will definitely be listening to it again. Wonderful, fantastic, brilliant and cleverly written to address issues that are still part of our societies
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