 Trade In this Item for up to £0.25
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in Does God Hate Women? for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £0.25, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Review
'Ophelia Benson and Jeremy Stangroom are the editors of Butterflies and Wheels, the best atheist site on the web. In Does God Hate Women? they forensically dismantle the last respectable misogyny ... By the end of this book-length blast, Benson and Stangroom have left religious hatred of women in rubble. Anybody not addled by superstition will have to conclude that such bigotry deserves neither respect nor deference.' --Johann Hari, New Statesman
BBC Music Choice - 5/5 stars
'Illuminating ... touching ... much to inspire. Anyone who is capable of being deeply moved by music should read it.' -- BBC Music Magazine
'This is trademark, provocotive Scruton.' -- The Bookseller
BBC Music Choice - 5/5 stars
'Illuminating ... touching ... much to inspire. Anyone who is capable of being deeply moved by music should read it.' -- BBC Music Magazine
'This is trademark, provocotive Scruton.' -- The Bookseller
Product Description
The new book from high profile philosophy writers Ophelia Benson and Jeremy Stangroom (authors of the hugely successful "Why Truth Matters"), exploring a topical and controversial religious and cultural issue in a highly accessible manner.This fascinating book explores the role that religion and culture play in the oppression of women. Philosophy writers Ophelia Benson and Jeremy Stangroom ask probing questions about the way that religion shields the oppression of women from criticism and why many Western liberals, leftists and feminists have remained largely silent on the subject.The lives of women in the industrialized world have improved enormously in the last hundred years, especially so, in social, cultural and political terms, in the last forty. But throughout the rest of the world, a great many women lead lives of misery and sometimes plain horror. They are often considered and treated as the property of men and have few, if any, rights. Such treatment is generally sustained and protected by a combination of religion and culture."Does God Hate Women?" explores instances of the oppression of women in the name of religious and cultural norms and how these issues play out both in the community and in the political arena. Drawing on philosophical concerns such as truth, relativism, knowledge and ethics, Benson and Stangroom assess the current situation and provide a rallying call for a progressive politics that is committed to universal values. This important new book will appeal to anyone interested in issues of global justice, human rights and multiculturalism.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
21 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
for all those women who don't bother to vote and every teenaged girl in the country. A lot of men could benefit from it too - it might have the same revelatory effect as Edward Shorter's "A History of Women's Bodies" had on my father when he snaffled my copy.
A cogent assessment of the iniquities visited on women in the name of religion over large parts of the globe and in some instances here. A rational, reasoned argument which carries infinitely more weight than the snide diatribes of Hitchens and the slight sense of hysteria one gets from Dawkins.
Things have moved on considerably in my lifetime but anyone who has ever been asked to get their father to guarantee a bank loan or whose mother had to get her husband to approve a credit agreement or who was at one time ineligible for a mortgage because she was female will recognise that these were only watered down versions of the mysogyny inculcated by religion.
We should all remember that things can regress as well as progress, and value and protect the freedoms we now enjoy. They could so easily be revoked as the patriarchal religions fight their rearguard action. I happened in Germany in the 30s and has happened more recently in Egypt - the price of freedom is eternal vigilance - the more so for women. We can never take it for granted.
A cogent assessment of the iniquities visited on women in the name of religion over large parts of the globe and in some instances here. A rational, reasoned argument which carries infinitely more weight than the snide diatribes of Hitchens and the slight sense of hysteria one gets from Dawkins.
Things have moved on considerably in my lifetime but anyone who has ever been asked to get their father to guarantee a bank loan or whose mother had to get her husband to approve a credit agreement or who was at one time ineligible for a mortgage because she was female will recognise that these were only watered down versions of the mysogyny inculcated by religion.
We should all remember that things can regress as well as progress, and value and protect the freedoms we now enjoy. They could so easily be revoked as the patriarchal religions fight their rearguard action. I happened in Germany in the 30s and has happened more recently in Egypt - the price of freedom is eternal vigilance - the more so for women. We can never take it for granted.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I finished reading this book a few days ago and am planning to read it again already. An absolute must read. As someone of Muslim descent i know only too well the realities of violence and abuse visited upon women and girls across the world. This book, however, does not focus on any one single religion but looks across faiths and highlights the terrible atrocities perpetrated against women and girls in the name of religion and God. I DO NOT need to know what 'freedoms' various religions may or may not have given women and girls in the past. The questions is 'What do we all do about violence against women and girls now?'
It's time for us all to stand up and be counted and demand an end to the brutality. Women and girls make up more than half the world's population and yet those in power are relatively silent on the violencethey suffer except when it suits their own ends e.g. Afghanistan - the Taliban and those before had been attacking women and girls long before 9/11. Enough is enough - we must rise up and end the violence NOW!
It's time for us all to stand up and be counted and demand an end to the brutality. Women and girls make up more than half the world's population and yet those in power are relatively silent on the violencethey suffer except when it suits their own ends e.g. Afghanistan - the Taliban and those before had been attacking women and girls long before 9/11. Enough is enough - we must rise up and end the violence NOW!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The Universal declaration Of Human Rights (UDHR) was drawn up after the Nazi genocide, the forced labour on the Burma railway, the bombings of Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the immense death toll in the Soviet Union which wiped out 10 per cent of the population.
The words in the UDHR were chosen very carefully so as not to give emphasis to any particular religion and to help the declaration become universally applied throughout the world (not achieved so far, but nevertheless a worthy cause still worth fighting for).
This wasn't good enough for the fans of Sharia law who have come up with their own version of the UDHR (The Cairo Declaration On Human Rights In Islam - CDHRI) which contains statements like this :-
"All human beings form one family whose members are united by submission to God and descent from Adam..........."
and other such nonsense, which emphatically loads the dice in favour of men and against women, also it doesn't support secularism and the right not to believe in God.
The supporters of CDHRI believe that the the UDHR is loaded towards a Western secular concept of Judeo-Christian origin, incompatible with Sharia law.
In other words they want to go their own way as regards Human Rights, but in so doing they have created a document which could be used by people who are actually working against Human Rights.
The absurd CDHRI is nicely contrasted with the UDHR in this very readable and badly needed book by Benson and Stangroom.
As Nick Cohen says the book "is both a joy to read and a call to arms".
Now get out there and arm yourself, and I don't just mean the women amongst you !
The words in the UDHR were chosen very carefully so as not to give emphasis to any particular religion and to help the declaration become universally applied throughout the world (not achieved so far, but nevertheless a worthy cause still worth fighting for).
This wasn't good enough for the fans of Sharia law who have come up with their own version of the UDHR (The Cairo Declaration On Human Rights In Islam - CDHRI) which contains statements like this :-
"All human beings form one family whose members are united by submission to God and descent from Adam..........."
and other such nonsense, which emphatically loads the dice in favour of men and against women, also it doesn't support secularism and the right not to believe in God.
The supporters of CDHRI believe that the the UDHR is loaded towards a Western secular concept of Judeo-Christian origin, incompatible with Sharia law.
In other words they want to go their own way as regards Human Rights, but in so doing they have created a document which could be used by people who are actually working against Human Rights.
The absurd CDHRI is nicely contrasted with the UDHR in this very readable and badly needed book by Benson and Stangroom.
As Nick Cohen says the book "is both a joy to read and a call to arms".
Now get out there and arm yourself, and I don't just mean the women amongst you !
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Yes God Does Indeed Hate Women
I have just finished reading this book on holiday. This is a must read for all. Should anyone believe that we are equal in the eyes of God (if he exists), then they haven't read... Read more
Published 2 months ago by The Reader
well, yes
I think it would be very difficult, contemplating the historical, anthropological and sociological record, to answer the question posed by the title here in anything other than the... Read more
Published 3 months ago by S. Matthews
A compelling narrative, but pay close attention to the theory and not...
Benson and Strangroom create a compelling case for recognising religious oppression founded upon gender divides, buttressed by impactive anecdotal evidences from various unique and... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Matt M.
A poorly-argued diatribe
This is a very poorly-argued diatribe against religion in general, relying largely on a set of emotive anecdotes to "prove" that religion lends itself to cruelty: the Saudi girls'... Read more
Published 22 months ago by IndigoJo
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
