Angela Saini, award-winning journalist, broadcaster and author will join us to talk about her latest book The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule.
The Patriarchs tells the fascinating story behind how patriarchy arose and became widespread. Male domination among humans is neither as old as we imagine, nor is it universal. As Saini explains, when we think about “gendered inequality as something unalterable within us, we fail to see it for what it is: something more fragile that has had to be constantly remade and reasserted.”
This event is only open to staff, students and the Imperial community.
After the event you will have the opportunity to purchase a copy of “The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule” and have it signed.
This event is a part of Women at Imperial Week 2023. Take a look at the other events happening during the Week.
About Angela Saini
Angela Saini has a Masters in Engineering from Oxford University, and a second Masters in Science and Security from the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. She presents radio and television programmes, and her writing has appeared across the world, including in The Financial Times, Wired, New Scientist, and National Geographic. She was a 2022 Logan Nonfiction Fellow in New York, and was in Berlin in summer 2022 on the Humboldt Residency Programme.
Angela’s 2019 book Superior: The Return of Race Science was published to enormous critical acclaim, and became a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize, the Hughes Prize, and the Foyles Book of the Year. Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong was published in 2017, and has been translated into fourteen languages.
In 2020 Angela was named one of the world’s top 50 thinkers by Prospect magazine, and in 2018 she was voted one of the most respected journalists in the UK. In 2015 she won the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Kavli Science Journalism gold award for a BBC Radio 4 documentary about birdsong and human language.