It’s my first TBR of 2018! This year I’m aiming to read 52 books which includes 6 non-fiction books. I’m actually only going to choose one book per month to go on my TBR because I want more freedom in my choices this year.
Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard
Summary: Britain’s best known classicist, Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit she shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from Medusa and Athena to Theresa May and Elizabeth Warren as she explores the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, considering the public voice of women, how we look at women who exercise power, our cultural assumptions about women’s relationship with power, and how powerful women resist being packaged into a male template.
With personal reflections on her own experiences of sexism online and the gendered violence she has endured as a woman in the public eye, Beard asks: If women aren’t perceived to be fully within the structures of power, isn’t it power we need to redefine
I wanted to start 2018 with a book that I have been excited about since it was published. Mary Beard is one of my favourite historians and I love watching her on TV so I’m sure I’ll love her writing too.
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