Off with Her Head - Paperback

Eleanor Herman traces three thousand years of strategies used to discredit women in power, from Cleopatra and Anne Boleyn to Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris. Sharp, well-sourced, and often very funny.

Herman documents the playbook: make her illegitimate, unsex her, attack her appearance, call her ambitious. The book shows how these tactics persist across centuries and geographies. It's both infuriating and brilliant. The evidence is everywhere once you see it.

History, women's studies, and political science courses all assign this. It's necessary reading for understanding how power works and who it's been designed to exclude.

DETAILS
- Author: Eleanor Herman
- Paperback
- On women, power, and history
- Feminism, history, social science