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brontherun 's review for:
Women & Power: A Manifesto
by Mary Beard
Beard has given us a primer to both the persistent imagery and the habits to silence women that have been passed down through generations. From ancient stories of Penelope to Elizabeth Warren. From Cambridge Dons to Twitter. We see that womens ability to participate with a public voice and leverage power change at a relatively glacial pace compared to the other changes in our age of technology.
Men and women should read this book, as it is for anyone who wants to think about the world they participate in (workplace, media, governments, etc.), rather than just accept what is presented to them. Questioning our structure of power exclusivity and the convention of ignoring, deriding, and silencing women's voices, is a difficult exercise in cultural self-awareness. But it is a necessary one.
As Beard says, "To put it another way, if women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine, rather than women?"
I think I might need to buy a few extra copies and keep it in my 'handbag' to distribute at will.
Men and women should read this book, as it is for anyone who wants to think about the world they participate in (workplace, media, governments, etc.), rather than just accept what is presented to them. Questioning our structure of power exclusivity and the convention of ignoring, deriding, and silencing women's voices, is a difficult exercise in cultural self-awareness. But it is a necessary one.
As Beard says, "To put it another way, if women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine, rather than women?"
I think I might need to buy a few extra copies and keep it in my 'handbag' to distribute at will.