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Women & Power: A Manifesto
by Mary Beard
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Gosh, I do read a lot of manifestos lately isnt it?
Women and Power is a collection of lectures from Professor Mary Beard. Professor Beard starts off with the Ancient Greek and Roman attitudes towards women. Attitudes and values that influenced the western world greatly, and some of which are still being implemented today - all in women’s expence.
She starts of with the Odyssey, where Telemachus, son of Odysseus, orders his mother Penelope to go back to her room and her loom and let the matters of the palace at his hands. Beard compares this kind of attitude to today’s society, where women are still expected to run the household and look after the kids.
Beard then on takes on Ancient Greek politics, where women could not be taken seriously because of their feminine and sweet voice correlating it to Margare Thatcher, who had to take voice lessons in order to make her voice less feminine and more authoritive and manly.
It is a great little book of just 130 pages, that every woman should read. Professor Beard has a unique and understandable way of explaining our society’s issues, with examples of where and when they derived and how these ideologies are still alive.
It made me see the world a lot more differently as some examples in there took me aback as I had never encountered them or others that I considered normal but they are not.
Definetely Recommend.
Gosh, I do read a lot of manifestos lately isnt it?
Women and Power is a collection of lectures from Professor Mary Beard. Professor Beard starts off with the Ancient Greek and Roman attitudes towards women. Attitudes and values that influenced the western world greatly, and some of which are still being implemented today - all in women’s expence.
She starts of with the Odyssey, where Telemachus, son of Odysseus, orders his mother Penelope to go back to her room and her loom and let the matters of the palace at his hands. Beard compares this kind of attitude to today’s society, where women are still expected to run the household and look after the kids.
Beard then on takes on Ancient Greek politics, where women could not be taken seriously because of their feminine and sweet voice correlating it to Margare Thatcher, who had to take voice lessons in order to make her voice less feminine and more authoritive and manly.
It is a great little book of just 130 pages, that every woman should read. Professor Beard has a unique and understandable way of explaining our society’s issues, with examples of where and when they derived and how these ideologies are still alive.
It made me see the world a lot more differently as some examples in there took me aback as I had never encountered them or others that I considered normal but they are not.
Definetely Recommend.