{"id":1576,"date":"2013-02-21T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1576"},"modified":"2023-08-30T09:06:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T23:06:07","slug":"british-royal-female-bodies-how-hilary-mantel-lit-up-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1576","title":{"rendered":"British Royal Female Bodies &#8211; How Hilary Mantel Lit Up the Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a speech given at the British Museum, Brooker Prize winning author Hilary Mantel, comments on the way that the British Monarchy&nbsp;suppresses&nbsp;and the media interprets its women: (glamorously) seen but not heard and&nbsp;largely unknown.&nbsp; Athough&nbsp;her perceptive statements about &#8220;their Kate&#8221;&nbsp;were savagely criticised by all forms of the media and by&nbsp;the Prime Minister&nbsp;himself, sales of her books reportedly soared.&nbsp;&nbsp;After a few days, more rational analysis prevailed including this one by Donna-Marie Bohan&nbsp;on politics.co.uk&nbsp; (25 Feb) at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/comment-analysis\/2013\/02\/25\/comment-team-mantel-or-team-middleton-the-real-issue-is-the\">http:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/comment-analysis\/2013\/02\/25\/comment-team-mantel-or-team-middleton-the-real-issue-is-the<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp; WfaAR&nbsp;applauds Hilary Mantel as a woman who speaks her mind and expresses her own opinions in the public domain in whatever voice and form she chooses.&nbsp; She is 100 percent correct about the British monarchy, reinforcing how unsuitable they are to provide the Australian monarch. Click on the link below to access Hilary Mantel&#8217;s original&nbsp;article published in the London Review of Books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/contributors\/hilary-mantel\">More info &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a speech given at the British Museum, Brooker Prize winning author Hilary Mantel, comments on the way that the British Monarchy&nbsp;suppresses&nbsp;and the media interprets its women: (glamorously) seen but not heard and&nbsp;largely unknown.&nbsp; Athough&nbsp;her perceptive statements about &#8220;their Kate&#8221;&nbsp;were&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19","wpcat-19-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}