- Social conditions, Women, Sexism, Feminism
Two essays connect the past with the present, tracing the history of misogyny to its ancient roots and examining the pitfalls of gender.
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Cool, classical in form, grave and earnest.
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Mary Beard
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 115
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781631494758
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Winifred Mary Beard was born on 1 January 1955 in Much Wenlock, Shropshire, the only child of architect Roy Whitlock Beard and junior school headmistress Joyce Emily Beard
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