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035			_a(OCoLC)1015265272 _z(OCoLC)1010777807 _z(OCoLC)1015334566
037			_bW W Norton & Co Inc, Keystone Industrial Park Attn Mike Charnogursky 800 Keystone Industrial Park, Scranton, PA, USA, 18512 _nSAN 202-5795
042			_apcc
092			_a305.42 _bB368
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aBeard, Mary, _d1955- _eauthor. _9143725
240	1	0	_aEssays. _kSelections
245	1	0	_aWomen & power : _ba manifesto / _cMary Beard.
246	3		_aWomen and power
246	3		_aMary Beard, women & power
250			_aFirst American edition.
264		1	_aNew York, N.Y. ; _aLondon : _bLiveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, _c2017.
264		4	_c©2017
300			_axi, 115 pages : _billustrations ; _c20 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"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.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 99-104) and index.
505	0		_aThe public voice of women -- Women in power.
520			_aTwo essays connect the past with the present, tracing the history of misogyny to its ancient roots and examining the pitfalls of gender.
520			_a"At long last, Mary Beard has decided to address in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack and demean women the world over. Few, sadly, are more experienced with this kind of hateful barrage than Beard herself, who has been subjected to a whole onslaught of criticism online, in response to her articles and public speeches. In [this book], Beard presents her most powerful statement yet, tracing the origins of misogyny to their ancient roots. In two provocative essays, Beard connects the past to the present as only she can, examining the pitfalls of gender and the ways that history has mistreated powerful women since time immemorial. As far back as Homer's Odyssey, Beard shows, women have been prohibited from leadership roles in civic life, public speech historically being defined as inherently male. There is no clearer example than Odysseus' wife, Penelope, who seals her lips and proceeds upstairs when told to shut up by Telemachus, her son. Other women who have dared to open their mouths in public or, against all odds, gained power--from would-be Roman orators, though the great queen Elizabeth I--have been treated as 'freakish androgynes, ' attacked or punished for their courage--regarded with suspicion at best, contempt at worst. From Medusa to Philomela (whose tongue was cut out), from Hillary Clinton to Elizabeth Warren (who was told to sit down), Beard draws endlessly illuminating parallels between our cultural assumptions about women's relationship to power--and how powerful women provide a necessary example for all women who must resist being vacuumed into a male template. With personal reflections on her own experiences with sexism, Beard asks: If women aren't perceived to be within the structure of power, isn't it power itself we need to redefine? And how many more centuries should we be expected to wait?"--Jacket.
650		0	_aFeminism. _951470
650		0	_aWomen _xSocial conditions. _968317
650		0	_aSexism. _9143000
650		0	_aPower (Social sciences) _9109314
655		7	_aEssays. _2lcgft _95184
700	1	2	_aBeard, Mary, _d1955- _tPublic voice of women. _9354263
700	1	2	_aBeard, Mary, _d1955- _tWomen in power. _9354264
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