About the Book: Women and Power: A Manifesto
Britains 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 womens 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