Mary Beard on 'Women & Power'

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Beard talks about her new manifesto, and Hillary Chute discusses “Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere.”

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0:00.0	What unites women in their struggle for public power from ancient history until today?
0:10.5	Mary Beard is here to discuss that question and her new book, Women and Power, a Manifesto.
0:15.6	How did comic strips and graphic novels go from being underground sensations to full-blown
0:20.4	literary respect?
0:21.4	Hillary Chute is here to talk about her new book, Why Comics, From Underground to Everywhere.
0:27.0	This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.
0:29.0	I'm John Williams.
0:32.0	Mary Beard joins us now to talk about her latest book, Women and Power, a Manifesto.
0:39.6	She is, of course, also the author most recently of SPQR and many other books.
0:45.0	I don't know.
0:46.0	Are you the greatest living classist at least in England?
0:49.0	I think so, my colleagues.
0:51.0	Question that.
0:52.0	We'll say it here.
0:53.0	Mary, thank you so much for being here.
0:55.0	Great to be here.
0:56.0	This is a very different book from you.
0:58.5	For one thing, it's not directly a book of the classics or about the classics and very
1:03.8	different from your book.
1:05.3	Was it last year that SPQR came out?
1:07.3	Yeah, just the year before.
1:08.3	Yeah.
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