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Women & power : a manifesto / Mary Beard.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating HQ1155 .B42 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beard, Mary, 1955- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminism.
- Women--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Sexism.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 115 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Other Title:
- Women and power
- Mary Beard, Women & power
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2017.
- Summary:
- Two essays connect the past with the present, tracing the history of misogyny to its ancient roots and examining the pitfalls of gender.
- Contents:
- The public voice of women
- Women in power.
- Preface
- The public voice of women
- Women in power
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- "A version of 'The Public voice of women' first appeared in the London Review of Books, 20 March 2014; 'Women in power' was published, also in the London Review of Books, 16 March 2017, Both were lectures presented by Mary Beard in the LRB Winter Lecture series."--Title page verso.
- Includes index.
- "A version of 'The Public voice of women' first appeared in the London Review of Books, 20 March 2014; 'Women in power' was published, also in the London Review of Books, 16 March 2017. Both were lectures presented by Mary Beard in the LRB Winter Lecture series."--Title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Schneidman fund bookplate.
- Contains:
- Beard, Mary, 1955- Public voice of women.
- Beard, Mary, 1955- Women in power.
- Other Edition:
- Reproduction of: 9781788160605 Beard, Mary, 1955- London : Profile Books Ltd, 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781631494758
- 1631494759
- OCLC:
- 1015265272
- Publisher Number:
- 99975007589
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