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Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard

11 reviews

sauvageloup's review

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

Bit too short to really address anything in depth, but a good starting point.

pros:
- some interesting thoughts on where modern western misogyny comes from and its portrayal in ancient Greek and Roman texts like the Odyssey, Agamemnon and Lysistrata.
- also a look at how modern female politicians are treated and compared to their male counterparts, and the different types of power.
- also looked at how women tend to lower their voice or wear suits to fit in with men in power.

cons:
- Beard says in the afterword that further she would like to dig into how these power dynamics worked, etc. which I wish had been somewhat included in the text. She didnt really offer how things could be changed exactly, only that power should be reconsidered, not women.

overall, a good read, just wish it had been longer and had more depth!

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challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

a truly beautiful book. Mary Beard is so mother.

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informative reflective fast-paced

4.75

As many have mentioned before, the worst part avout this book is that there is not more of it.

The book tackles some rather compex topics in what I feel is an accessible and easy to understand way. The vocabulary isn't overly complex, each idea is very well developed and explained. You don't need to know the greek poems that come up through the book for the comparison and explanations to make sense. Mary Beard does an excellent job of explaining the struggle of womeb to reach and stay in power.

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emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.25

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challenging informative reflective fast-paced

3.25

A good starting point into interesting feminist topics. I especially enjoyed the part of the "Public Voice" of women and how it's able to be related to ancient times. I greatly appreciated Beard's thoughts on the #MeToo movement at the end of the book and how she puts them into the bigger picture of the book. These are well written speeches and Beard herself acknowledges that they aren't as fleshed out as they could be but I wish they had been! The length they're now, it all just feels like a very long introduction.

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