Women & Power: A Manifesto — Mary Beard

(pub. 2017) Two essays pub­lished in the London Review of Books in 2014 and 2017 In the Public Voice of Women, Beard shows the depth and breadth of the prac­tice of the silenc­ing of women. She begins with the silenc­ing of Penelope by her son Telemachus in the Odyssey. When Penelope enters the hall to ask …