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.
