Women & power : a manifesto / Mary Beard.

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