I became aware of this book via a column by Sandi Toksvig in The Daily Telegraph. I really feel it's a book which ought to be read by all women, everywhere. ( )

Wit and a love of language prevent Rosalind Miles' rage at the suppression of women overwhelming this fascinating history of the female experience and the place of women in the world from the earliest times. Her scholarly research supports her contention that the prehistoric religion of a Great Goddess came to be supplanted my a phallocentric culture that is only now beginning to be diluted by the liberating influence of contraception. She highlights the many women whose importance is overlooked by established history and celebrates some of those whose names are known. Rewarding in its information and its form, this is a history book to revisit. ( )

Wonderful new way of looking at hi.story ( )