In Search of Mary Seacole: a ‘wonderfully informative’ biography

Helen Rappaport sets out to bring ‘clarity to Seacole’s life’

Flowers are placed near the statue of Crimean War nurse Mary Seacole
Flowers are placed near the statue of Crimean War nurse Mary Seacole on 23 March 2021
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In this “forceful and rather unusual” book, Nina Power contends that a “war on men” is being waged in many Western countries, said Jay Elwes in The Spectator. Men, the philosopher suggests, are continually denigrated in popular culture: they are depicted as violent, selfish and lazy – and masculinity itself as irredeemably “toxic”.

This “all-out assault”, Power argues, ignores the reality that many men in today’s world feel increasingly useless and marginalised. In fact, it risks re-enacting the kind of negative group stereotyping that has so often facilitated prejudice in the past.

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