Misogyny in the Western Philosophical Tradition

The Devil''s gateway'' (Tertullian); ''Big children their whole life long'' (Schopenhauer); ''The misbegotten male'' (Aquinas). Such understandings of women are shocking, not least because they come from the great minds responsible for the formation of the western intellectual tradition. In this collection, the roots of philosophical misogyny are explored and exposed. At times disturbing, at times...