Women & Power: A Manifesto

This little book is subtitled “A Manifesto”, and it contains 2 speeches-made-into-essays that Beard gave in 2014 (The Public Voice of Women) and 2017 (Women in Power). Drawing on examples from Greek and Roman mythology (Beard is a classicist) she elegantly and concisely demonstrates how women's voices have continuously been oppressed and ridiculed. How the notion of power is inherently male and how women breaking into positions of power have to adopt maleness. Ending on the manifesto part, Beard calls for a redefinition of power itself.

This is a very quick and excellent read, and and at the end you're left wishing she had added on another essay with an outline for a path on how to get past these still existing culturally indoctrinated prejudices.