Women and Power: Mary Beard, Germaine Greer, Namita Bhandare, Nishtha Gautam, Reni Eddo-Lodge & Bee Rowlatt
Mary Beard, Professor at the University of Cambridge, is one of Britain’s best-known Classicists. Her books include Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town, the bestselling SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome as well as the thought-provoking feminist manifesto Women & Power. She has presented numerous BBC documentaries including the recent ‘Civilisations’ series.
Bestselling/ popular Books: Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town, Confronting the Classics
Germaine Greer is a writer, academic and critic who is widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of our time. Her first book, The Female Eunuch, was published in 1969 and remains one of the most influential texts of the feminist movement. Greer has had a distinguished academic career in Britain and the USA. She makes regular appearances in print and other media as a broadcaster, journalist, columnist and reviewer.
Popular Books: Sex and Destiny, The Change, The Whole Woman and Shakespeare's Wife
Namita Bhandare is an award-winning journalist with nearly 30 years of reporting experience for various publications including magazines Sunday and India Today, and the daily The Hindustan Times. In 2013, she was appointed India’s first gender editor for Mint newspaper and remained in that position until 2016. She is at present an independent journalist who writes a fortnightly column on gender for The Hindustan Times and also writes for Mint, IndiaSpend and Foreign Policy.
Nishtha Gautam is Opinions Editor at The Quint. Before moving to full-time journalism, she taught English Literature at the University of Delhi for eight years. She observes literary and cultural space with keenness, in tandem with her interest in politics and foreign affairs.
Reni Eddo-Lodge is an award-winning journalist. Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race is her first book. It was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Orwell Prize. It won the Jhalak Prize and Non-Fiction Narrative Book of the Year at the British Book Awards.
Bee Rowlatt’s In Search of Mary was a “biography of the year” (Independent). She co-wrote the best-selling Talking about Jane Austen in Baghdad and features in Virago’s Fifty Shades of Feminism. Rowlatt’s done festivals in Russia, Bangladesh, Mexico, Iraq, Colombia and the UK but her heart belongs to Jaipur! She began in BBC World Service and has written for national and international media. Rowlatt chairs the Mary Wollstonecraft campaign.
Bestselling/ popular Books: In Search of Mary, Talking about Jane Austen
Women and Power
Internationally renowned classicist Mary Beard is 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. With personal reflections on her own experiences of the sexism and gendered aggression she has endured online, Beard asks: if women aren’t perceived to be within the structures of power, isn’t it power that we need to redefine? In the year #MeToo hit India, she discusses her ideas with Germaine Greer, Katty Kay and Reni Eddo-Lodge in conversation with Bee Rowlatt.
Presented by Women Uninteruppted Series
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