SOURCE: Neverow-Turk, Vara. “Global War against Women.” ELT: English Literature in Translation, 1880-1920 36, no. 1 (1993): 127-31.

In the following review, Neverow-Turk argues that although the subject material of The War against Women is familiar, “the impact of the book is still intense and disturbing.”

Marilyn French's The War against Women is a succinct, up-to-date, readable and compelling reiteration of the claims, advanced in 1979 by Kathleen Barry in Female Sexual Slavery, that there is an actual global conspiracy against women and that the conspiracy is actively sponsored, defended, funded and enforced by the patriarchy that dominates virtually every society and government in the world. Like Susan Faludi's controversial study, Backlash: The Undeclared War against American Women, French's book invokes warfare as the most accurate way to describe the degree of violence and hatred directed against women. And it is no exaggeration, as she reminds readers, for at every level of...