Description:
New York Times Bestseller
One of the Guardian's "100 Best Books of the 21st Century" -- "A modern feminist classic."
From the internationally acclaimed classicist and New York Times best-selling author comes this timely manifesto on women and power.
Brief description: Mary Beard is the author of the best-selling The Fires of Vesuvius and the National Book Critics Circle Award-nominated Confronting the Classics and SPQR. A popular blogger and television personality, Beard is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. She lives in England.
Review Quotes: [A] sparkling and forceful manifesto...The book is a straight shot of adrenaline.--Parul Sehgal "New York Times"