num_pages: 384
description: New York Times bestseller Eleanor Herman author of Sex with Kings and Sex with Presidents returns with another work of popular history exploring the history of misogyny against women with power from Cleopatra to Kamala Harris.Imagine Donald Trump as a woman called Donna. Would Donna Trump have been viewed as blunt honest and refreshing? Would she have won the election? Imagine Hillary Clinton as a man. Howard Clinton says and does the exact same things as Hillary. Would Howard Clinton have been portrayed in a thousand Pinterest images as a witch stirring a cauldron or riding a broomstick? Would he have been called a bitch on countless T-shirts? Would his thoughtful circumspect answers to media questions have been seen as inauthenticity secretiveness and untrustworthiness? There is a particular kind of ragelets call it unadulterated bloodlustusually reserved for women especially women in power or vying for it. From the ancient world through the European Renaissance up to the most recent U.S. elections the Misogynists Handbook as Eleanor Herman calls it has been wielded to put uppity women in their place. In a story that is shocking eye-opening and a powerful force for change Eleanor Hermans signature wit and humor explores the patterns that have been operating for more than three thousand yearsand are still operating todayagainst powerful women across the globe including Cleopatra Anne Boleyn Marie Antoinette Catherine the Great Hillary Clinton Kamala Harris and more. Each chapter analyzes a tried-and-true misogynistic method to keep women down Her Overweening Ambition Why Doesnt She Do Something About Her Hair? The Dangers of Female Hormones The Alarming Shrillness of Her Voice The Mysterious Unlikability of Female Candidates Shes a Bitch and Other Animals Shes a Witch and Other Monsters and Her Sexual Depravity. Herman ends the book by looking forward examining ways to rip up the Misogynists Handbook once and for all.
language: English
title: Off With Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power
publisher: William Morrow