While Greek mythology and history highlight the figure, presence and role of women and make them powerful beings, full of possibilities and projects, Greek democracy – the ideal model of social organization for the Western world – considers them a domestic animal and, confronting them with man as a political animal, it relegates their participation to the background in the process of building and defending the State.
Two millennia later, the situation remains essentially the same. And not only in the Western world. Wherever we look at it, throughout the world women continue to be considered incompetent, incapable, incapable beings, unable by nature to exercise power, to govern, to take into their hands not only their own destiny but, above all, that of the society to which, here and there, they belong and to whose construction they make a valuable contribution.
Starting precisely from the ancient world, taking a journey through Christianity, the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment and the Modern Age, and arriving at the democracy of our days, Giulia Sissa gives us The Power of Women. A challenge for democracy, an excellently documented, brilliant book, of surprising contemporaneity, which is, at the same time, an excellent way to start a new collection of the Veracruz University Press: Feminisms.