A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Wednesday, January 3, 2018

WOMEN AND THE NEED TO REDEFINE 'POWER'

Mary Beard, Women and Power: A Manifesto (New York: Liveright, 2017):

[I]f I am right about the deep cultural structures legitimating women's exclusion, gradualism is likely to take far too long--for me at least. We have to be more reflective about what power is, what it is for, and how it is measured. To put it another way, if women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather then women?

Id. at at 83.