Book description
In this compelling, powerful book, highly respected writer and
commentator 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 takes the
reader on an eye-opening journey through centuries, continents and
civilizations as it looks at both historical and contemporary
attitudes to women. Encompassing the Church, witch hunts, sexual
theory, Nazism and pro-life campaigners, we arrive at today's
developing world, where women are increasingly and disproportionately
at risk because of radicalised religious belief, famine, war and
disease. Well-informed and researched, highly readable and
thought-provoking, this is no outmoded feminist polemic: it's a
refreshingly straightforward investigation into an ancient, pervasive
and enduring injustice. It deals with the fundamentals of human
existence -- sex, love, violence -- that have shaped the lives of
humans throughout history. The answer? It's time to recognize that the
treatment of women amounts to nothing less than an abuse of human
rights on an unthinkable scale. A Brief History of Misogyny is an
important and timely book that will make a long-lasting contribution
to the efforts to improve those rights throughout the world.
