For centuries, men have benefited symbolically and materially from the societal dominance they have established by brute force. Today, thanks to education and the massive entry of women into the labor market, they are - in many places - able to achieve liberation and social advancement. But this aspiration for equality, of which the MeToo movement was a global manifestation, does not pass without unleashing the wrath of a gay masculinity in return.
This book documents that fierce resistance to the gains of women's liberation movements. The author believes that fanaticism, the rise of the new extreme right, Christian fundamentalism, and jihadism in one of its manifestations constitute a neurotic reaction to global women's liberation, which seems to threaten many of the foundations of the patriarchal system. These movements attempt to limit women to their domestic duties and motherhood and deprive them of any right outside the home. This investigation lays the foundations of the contemporary encyclopedia of misogyny.
Abram de Swaan is a Dutch writer and sociologist, born in 1942. He studied in...
The Netherlands and the United States. He worked as an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine in New York. He also served as editor-in-chief of the cultural magazine “The Guide.” He founded and headed the Amsterdam Research School of Social Sciences. He is a member of the European Academy and the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received several awards and published many articles. Among the books are “The Killing Chambers, The Mentality of Mass Murder” and “The Intelligence Chamber on Extermination Regimes and Their Girls.”
