Title:
Women & power : a manifesto
Author:
Beard, Mary, 1955-
ISBN:
9781631494758
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
Essays. Selections
Edition:
First American edition.
Publication Information:
New York ;
London :
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company,
2017.
Physical Description:
xi, 115 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
General Note:
"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.
Contents:
The public voice of women -- Women in power.
Abstract:
Two essays connect the past with the present, tracing the history of misogyny to its ancient roots and examining the pitfalls of gender.
