Was there ever a time when women did not suffer from discrimination and men did not have a privileged position? Why does anti-feminism remain so fierce even today? Are you perhaps a perpetrator or a victim in the case of misogyny without realizing it;
Misogyny, this unquenchable hatred for women, is of course the insults and acts of violence, but not only: it is also the unspoken, the symbolic process through which women are subordinated to male dominance. This "hidden" misogyny permeates offices, institutions, the streets, friendships, but deeper than anywhere else, it exists within the intimacy of couples. It has been at the heart of our social (and marital) life for more than five centuries.
Historian Maurice Daumas demonstrates this with admirable skill, drawing from history, sociology, and psychoanalysis. Analyzing a topic that is increasingly frequent in current affairs, this valuable book will surely surprise you many times and will make you question everything you thought you knew about the relationships between men and women, from the Middle Ages to the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case.
