Misogyny : the world's oldest prejudice
In this compelling, powerful book, the late Irish journalist and essayist Jack Holland sets out to answer a daunting question: how do you explain the oppression and brutalization of half the world's population by the other half, throughout history? The result is an eye-opening journey through centuries, continents and civilizations as it looks at both historical and contemporary attitudes to women. Misogyny encompasses the Church, witch hunts, sexual theory, Nazism, pro-life campaigners, and finally, today's developing world, where women are increasingly and disproportionately at risk because of radicalized religious beliefs, famine, war, and disease. Extensively researched, highly readable and provocative, this book chronicles an ancient, pervasive and enduring injustice. The questions it poses deal with the fundamentals of human existence -- sex, love, violence -- that have shaped the lives of humans throughout history, and ultimately result in an abuse of human rights on a nearly unthinkable scale
Print Book, English, 2006
1st Carroll & Graf ed
Carroll & Graf : Distributed by Publishers Group West, New York, 2006