Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice

In this compelling powerful book the late Irish journalist and essayist Jack Holland set out to answer a daunting question: how do you explain the oppression and brutalization of half the worlds 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 todays 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 limn an abuse of human rights on a nearly unthinkable scale.