Women & Power
Title | Women & Power PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Beard |
Publisher | Profile Books |
Pages | 87 |
Release | 2017-11-02 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1782834532 |
An updated edition of the Sunday Times Bestseller Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from the classical world to the modern day, from Medusa and Athena to Theresa May and Hillary Clinton. Beard explores the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, considering 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. A year on since the advent of #metoo, Beard looks at how the discussions have moved on during this time, and how that intersects with issues of rape and consent, and the stories men tell themselves to support their actions. In trademark Beardian style, using examples ancient and modern, Beard argues, 'it's time for change - and now!' From the author of international bestseller SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome.
Woman and Power in History
Title | Woman and Power in History PDF eBook |
Author | Amaury De Riencourt |
Publisher | Honeyglen Publishing |
Pages | 488 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | History |
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An analysis of woman's status from pre-history to the modern day, this book presents her place and role in virtually every known culture throughout history, against the ethical, economic, religious, artistic and political conditions which have determined it.
Women and Power in History
Title | Women and Power in History PDF eBook |
Author | Amaury De Riencourt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 467 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Sex role |
ISBN | 9788120709843 |
History vs Women
Title | History vs Women PDF eBook |
Author | Anita Sarkeesian |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2018-10-02 |
Genre | Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1250146720 |
Rebels, rulers, scientists, artists, warriors and villains Women are, and have always been, all these things and more. Looking through the ages and across the globe, Anita Sarkeesian, founder of Feminist Frequency, along with Ebony Adams PHD, have reclaimed the stories of twenty-five remarkable women who dared to defy history and change the world around them. From Mongolian wrestlers to Chinese pirates, Native American ballerinas to Egyptian scientists, Japanese novelists to British Prime Ministers, History vs Women will reframe the history that you thought you knew. Featuring beautiful full-color illustrations of each woman and a bold graphic design, this standout nonfiction title is the perfect read for teens (or adults!) who want the true stories of phenomenal women from around the world and insight into how their lives and accomplishments impacted both their societies and our own.
Women, Power, and Property
Title | Women, Power, and Property PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel E. Brulé |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 395 |
Release | 2020-10-22 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1108870600 |
Quotas for women in government have swept the globe. Yet we know little about their capacity to upend entrenched social, political, and economic hierarchies. Women, Power, and Property explores this question within the context of India, the world's largest democracy. Brulé employs a research design that maximizes causal inference alongside extensive field research to explain the relationship between political representation, backlash, and economic empowerment. Her findings show that women in government – gatekeepers – catalyze access to fundamental economic rights to property. Women in politics have the power to support constituent rights at critical junctures, such as marriage negotiations, when they can strike integrative solutions to intrahousehold bargaining. Yet there is a paradox: quotas are essential for enforcement of rights, but they generate backlash against women who gain rights without bargaining leverage. In this groundbreaking study, Brulé shows how well-designed quotas can operate as a crucial tool to foster equality and benefit the women they are meant to empower.
Stereotypes of Women in Power
Title | Stereotypes of Women in Power PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Garlick |
Publisher | Praeger |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1992-01-30 |
Genre | Political Science |
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How have women, at different times and in different places, been perceived when they cross the gender-coded boundaries between the public and private realms? This broad-ranging study of the continuing ambivalence toward women in positions of power and authority describes "domineering dowagers," witches, and "scheming concubines" in ancient, medieval, and modern days in ancient Egypt, Rome, Byzantium, China, medieval Europe, the Victorian era, and today. This sourcebook also offers coverage of the political representation of women in various cultures and historical periods.
Sex and Power in History
Title | Sex and Power in History PDF eBook |
Author | Amaury De Riencourt |
Publisher | Delacorte Press |
Pages | |
Release | 1975-10-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780385286787 |