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Women & Power: A Manifesto
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
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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.
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From the author of international best seller SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio on our desktop site.
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- Mr J A G Lees
- 19-03-19
excellent short read
A short but thought provoking read on some of the historical underpinnings of gender inequities and the conscious or unconscious bias in the modern world. Overall an excellent book.
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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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- Minerva
- 08-05-20
Essential reading for women and men
Powerfully captures the ancient cultural attitudes underpinning contemporary prejudice towards women in power. Nailed it!
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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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- 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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- Avid Reader
- 11-10-19
Just terrific, well done Mary
This audiobook is word perfect, powerfully read and constantly interesting. Mary Beard’s ability to synthesise is highly admirable.
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- Wild Bunny
- 04-02-19
Outstanding
Totally, beautifully, eloquently sums up our lot. I love hearing books read by the author.
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- Client d'Amazon
- 22-01-19
Short but interesting
I could listen Mary Beard for days. I loved her already as a historian, but this book has really highlighted, for me, what a brilliant social commentator she is also. Only thing I hated was how quickly this manifesto ended.
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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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- Travelling Girl
- 09-11-21
Short and to the point
These two short essays address the gendered power imbalance in society. In punchy, we’ll/ informed style, this articulate scholar traces misogyny from Greek and Roman times convincingly. Beard is also enviteagingly witty in places.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-09-19
Overrated
Way too short for the price on audible. Mary Beard says nothing we didn’t already know. Sorry, as a woman I almost feel unsisterly but overall I just feel conned.