Product Description: Book by Shulman, Sandra

Product Description: The authors describe how and why over a thousand years, by both law and custom, British women were pilloried, executed and transported and made to undergo a host of savage humiliations contrived by masculine ingenuity. In tracing the roots of these punishments and the ancient prejudices against women, this book reveals why man chose to inflict such suffering on those without political or economic power, whose "crimes" often resulted from society regarding women as mentally ond morally inferior...read more