A brief history of misogyny

◆ “Misogyny was invented long before the wheel was invented.”
◇Pandora myth, witch-hunting craze, Jack the Ripper...
◇Misogyny has lasted for thousands of years, permeated civilization, and is everywhere.
◆The final work of renowned Irish journalist Jack Holland ◆A shocking investigation into one of humanity's oldest prejudices ◆Tracing the ideological roots of misogyny and presenting a panoramic view of its evolution
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From Plato's supreme ideal to Freud's "castration anxiety", from the myth of Eve's fall to the denigration of women in Hamlet, from medieval witch hunts to serial killers in London's alleys, misogyny exists in every aspect of civilization, traveling between different cultures like a virus and reproducing itself.
Why has misogyny persisted for millennia? How does it continue to shape our past, present, and future? "A Brief History of Misogyny" systematically examines this ancient, pervasive, and enduring prejudice for the first time. Author Jack Holland delves deeply into the roots of misogyny, comprehensively examining its evolution across civilizations. He weaves rich historical data into a thought-provoking narrative, revealing how thought and culture across fields like philosophy, religion, and science have fostered misogyny. This is a thorough investigation of the history of misogyny and a powerful weapon against it.
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【Editor's Recommendation】
◇A concise index to understanding misogyny, systematically combing through the millennia-old history of misogyny and tracing back to the ideological roots of ancient prejudices
-Creation myths, idealism, asceticism, witch-hunting craze, clitoral mutilation, serial killers, Nazism, anti-abortion movement... For thousands of years, the degradation and harm of women has never stopped.
Irish journalist Jack Holland delves into the historical roots of misogyny, showing how it persists from classical civilization to contemporary society, offering a thorough investigation of this stubborn and enduring prejudice.
- Rethinking why women are always despised and oppressed, providing a powerful ideological weapon to fight against misogyny◇ Crossing cultures, deconstructing classics, and presenting a panoramic view of the evolution of misogyny culture
- Plato, Aristotle, Tertullian, Aquinas, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Freud...the great thinkers who influenced the world are all misogynists?
-Integrates materials from multiple fields such as religion, literature, and philosophy to reveal how different ideologies and cultures foster prejudice against women—nourishes it through myths and religions, and defends it through science and reason.
-From the custom of sati in India and genital mutilation in Africa to the plight of women in Islamic societies and the debate over abortion rights in Europe and the United States, a comprehensive picture of misogyny in the East and the West is presented.
◇ Go deep into the historical scene, restore the shocking violence and scars, and give flesh and blood to the "her" in the historical footnotes
-Discarded in the garbage dump, denounced as a slut, roasted in the fire, silenced behind the veil, despised in the canon, surrounded and humiliated in the crowd... The prejudice, oppression and violence suffered by women are all restored.
-Writing about women caught in the cracks of history, vividly presenting their rebellious, strong, ordinary and simple characters.
-From far to near, from struggle to resistance, feel the connection in women's similar life experiences.
【Media Recommendation】
With his perfect command of history, ancient and modern, he was able to construct an almost unassailable argument from a mass of often contradictory facts, like a good stonemason forming a solid and beautiful wall from the glacial debris of New England.
—The Irish Echo
Holland offers a meticulously researched and concise account of history, and his sharp comments and apt quotations are always enjoyable, as is his refusal to simplify.
—The Sunday Times

2024-08-01

北京联合出版公司

Lucida

368

9787559676016