Backing Hitler

Robert Gellately

Robert Gellately’s close history of the Nazi period focuses on one particular question: how much did ordinary Germans know about what was going on?

Down Girl

Kate Manne

Kate Manne’s core premise is this: sexism is a set of beliefs that positions women as inferior to men, while misogyny is the system that enforces and polices women’s subordination.

A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas

Virginia Woolf

This pair of essays from Virginia Woolf attends to women’s exclusion from educational institutions and economic independence on two fronts.