Sexismus - Geschichte einer Unterdrückung

In "Sexismus – Geschichte einer Unterdrückung," Susan Arndt traces the cultural and intellectual history of sexism across Western societies. She identifies the core of sexism in the postulate of binary two-sex gender, which underwrites patriarchal rule and lays the groundwork for the discrimination of women as well as homosexual, intersex, and trans people.

Drawing on feminist, queer, and postcolonial theory, Arndt shows how sexism functions simultaneously as a system of power and an archive of knowledge, analyzes why it has proven so resilient across centuries, and describes its current manifestations. The book closes by surveying historical and contemporary strategies of resistance and possible paths toward change.