Throughout history men have been putting women down, one way or antoher. But times are changing and women are on the march against their opporessors. Eva Figes goes beyond protest to examine in historical perspective the attitudes which have helped determine the place of women in society. She shows the ways in which Christianity, capitalism and even Freudian psychology have force women into a subservient role and analyses the basic motivations which lie behind this orrpession of one sex by another.