WOMEN AND POWER: A MANIFESTO (HB)

With wry wit, Britain's best-known classicist revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women, in examples ranging from Medusa and Athena to Theresa May and Hillary Clinton. Beard explores the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, the public voice of women, our cultural assumptions about women's relationship with power, and how powerful women resist being packaged into a male template. If women aren't perceived to be within the structures of power, isn't it power that we need to redefine?