Description

In this persuasive, effective guide, highly-respected author and commentator Port Netherlands sets out to remedy a question: how will you describe the brutalization and oppression of half the planet's population from the other half, throughout history? The end result requires the reader on a watch-opening trip through continents, generations and cultures because it discusses both modern and historic attitudes to girls. Covering the Chapel, witch hunts, erotic concept, Nazism and pro life campaigners, we arrive at today's developing world, where women are significantly and disproportionately at risk due to radicalised spiritual perception, starvation, war and illness. Well-educated and researched, very readable and thought-provoking, this really is no outmoded feminist polemic: it is a refreshingly simple analysis into an old, persistent and suffering injustice.