Why are so many women still not properly listened to? Why do they
sometimes feel that they're less interesting than they are? Why do
they often rush when they speak? Why do some women feel the
pressure to sound like little girls? From one of the world's
leading experts on the voice comes this call to arms for women to
reclaim their voices. Using elements of experience and practice
from her prolific career, Patsy Rodenburg examines these questions,
and many more, to decipher what lies at the heart of female
empowerment. From the age of four, Rodenburg knew that she found
communication difficult. Her struggle with her own voice set her on
the journey that led her to discover her vocation. She has spent
her life re-finding and re-empowering voices, particularly the lost
voices of women. Watching her highly intelligent working-class
mother and grandmother ignored and often silenced gave her the
insight to investigate why that was and how to help women overcome
this centuries-old issue. With warmth and humour, Rodenburg
interrogates Shakespeare's texts and his presentation of female
characters; develops the notion of rhetoric in relation to the
female voice; and applies concepts explored in her previous books,
including The Three Circles of Energy. And, perhaps most crucially,
through arguing that power and voice are directly linked to breath,
Rodenburg makes the case that Western society's oppression of women
has diminished their natural ability to breathe. Exploring the
female voice through practical exercises and stories from the front
line, as well as profoundly personal and formative experiences from
her own life, Rodenburg defines the art of accessing the voice
within and reclaiming the woman's right to speak.
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