Jimmy Carter said the “view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief” so where did these ideas stem from? Asks Francine Prose, writing in Lapham’s Quaterly, and why, then, is misogyny so pervasive and enduring in our society?

Lapham’s Quarterly goes into the past to help us make sense of the present. It dives into history, finding the roots of education, science, literary, political, and economic thinking. 

The original sin: where misogyny comes from and why it endures

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