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In Her Place

A Documentary History of Prejudice Against Women
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The long history of prejudice against women has been the focus of many academic studies, but until now there has been no attempt to collect actual examples of this prejudice. Now, the author has gathered together works that document the scorn and contempt for the 'weaker sex' that most women endured for generations until very recently. This is the work of leading members of the intellectual, social and political communities. They published their views in numerous prestigious publications. Fear of women's sexuality was a prime motivator of a great deal of prejudice whereby men, but not women, were permitted sexual dalliance without undue censure. Reading the unabashed bias against women so evident in these pages brings the entrenched misogyny of American society into vivid focus and makes one appreciate all the more the immense efforts of feminists who, for more than a century, have worked to overcome the stereotypes of 'womanly' behaviour long enforced by men.
S. T. Joshi is a freelance writer, scholar, and editor. His books include The Unbelievers: The Evolution of Modern Atheism; Documents of American Prejudice; In Her Place: A Documentary History of Prejudice against Women; God's Defenders: What They Believe and Why They Are Wrong; Atheism: A Reader; H. L. Mencken on Religion; The Agnostic Reader; What Is Man? and Other Irreverent Essays by Mark Twain and The Angry Right: Why Conservatives Keep Getting It Wrong.
""Anyone wishing to understand the overwhelming challenges faced by women's-rights activists from the movement's earliest days to the dawn of the Second Wave need look no further than Joshi's illuminating, and downright infuriating, examples of pervasively misogynistic thinking." Booklist "Reading these exposes is an eye opening look into the mindset and roots of this ancient bias; they show how very far we have come in some ways...and also demonstrate how far this conservative culture has to go before true equality may be realized." Monsters and Critics.com
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