商品簡介
The long history of prejudice against women has been the focus of many studies, but until now there has never been an attempt to collect actual examples of this prejudice from books, articles, and scholarly monographs. In Her Place gathers together dozens of works - mostly by American writers over the past two centuries but also some by European writers who influenced American thought - that embody the scorn and contempt of women's physical, intellectual, moral, and psychological capacities. Edited by S. T. Joshi, who has included brief biographies of the writers as well as footnotes to explain obscure historical, literary, and other allusions, almost none of this material has ever been reprinted since its original publication.
As Joshi points out, this material exhibits the pervasive attempt (mostly by men, but also by a few women) to find intellectual justification for what in reality is nothing but irrational prejudice. Much of the writing in this book, although now largely forgotten, was issued by the most prestigious publishers in the United States and featured in leading magazines and newspapers. It represents not the writings of a few isolated cranks but of the leading members of the intellectual, social, and political communities. 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" behavior long enforced by men.
作者簡介
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.
