1. A God of Bullies 2. Religious Apologetics, Islam and Caricature
3. The World and the Kitchen 4. Honour is Between the Legs of Women
5. Holy Groupthink
6. Mutilate in the Name of Purity
7. Islam, Islamophobia and Risk 8. Lipstick on a Pig Notes Index
The new book from the authors of the hugely successful Why Truth Matters, exploring a topical and controversial religious and cultural issue.
Ophelia Benson is editor of www.butterfliesandwheels.com, deputy editor of The Philosophers' Magazine and co-author, with Jeremy Stangroom, of Why Truth Matters. She is also a frequent contributor to Free Inquiry. Jeremy Stangroom is the author of the international bestseller Einstein’s Riddle and its sequels. His writing has also appeared in the Guardian, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Daily Telegraph, and elsewhere. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics.
Author article (topic of book), book mention, The Observer. 31 May
2009.
Discussion of book, contents and potential impact (no review)
concerning book's thoughts on Muslim female abuse and Mohammad's
'Child Bride', timesonline.co.uk. 31 May 2009.
Article on book in Muslim Weekly, 5 June 2009.
Article on book by Madeleine Bunting, Guardian, 16 June 2009.
Title and The Times article discussed in Private Eye, June
2009.
'Fans of Richard Dawkins will love it' - Sholto Byrnes, Independent
on Sunday
'We may want to react to the title of this book with a defensive
"No, of course not." It will be more useful to acknowledge the
challenge posed by the authors' refusal to avoid awkward
questions. We should consider the extent to which the way, we
think, we are presenting our faith matches what those outside the
Church actually perceive.' - Church Times
"As I read Does God Hate Women, I was impressed by the many probing
questions that the writers focused on in the three great
monotheistic religions."Network, February 2010
'Ophelia Benson and Jeremy Stangroom are the editors of Butterflies
and Wheels, the best atheist site on the web. In Does God Hate
Women? they forensically dismantle the last respectable misogyny
... By the end of this book-length blast, Benson and Stangroom have
left religious hatred of women in rubble. Anybody not addled by
superstition will have to conclude that such bigotry deserves
neither respect nor deference.' - Johann Hari, New Statesman
Reviewed in The Observer, July 2009.
Author Q & A and title mention in New Statesman.
'At a time when too many people bend over backwards to avoid
offending the sensibilities of those with a belief in the
supernatural, Benson and Stangroom provide a breath of fresh air.
They subject the core beliefs of the world's leading faiths to the
rigorous analysis they sometimes escape out of a misplaced fear of
giving offence ... All this desperately needs to be said ... As
this book reminds us, religion brings with it patriarchal ideas
about gender difference which claim to honour women but almost
always give men power over them.' - Joan Smith, The Independent
Reviewd in Morning Star, August 2009.
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/culture/books/non_fiction/does_god_hate_women
'The predecessors of today's critics would have hailed [this book]
as a feminist classic.' - Standpoint
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