The Curious Case of Inequality

No one after reading this thought-provoking book will blithely assert that we are living in an age of equality between the sexes. Taking the 1930s detective fiction of Dorothy L. Sayers as a springboard and drawing on her own practice as a psychotherapist Gail Freyne makes hard-hitting points about the still unequal relationship between the sexes in the home, the workplace and society at large. In a style as engaging and accessible as Sayers's own, Freyne demolishes the notion that the postfeminist era has rendered equal rights feminism redundant. Gail Grossman Freyne’s The Curious Case of Inequality: a Journey for Justice with Dorothy L Sayers traces attitudes toward women during most of the last century. The question is ‘What has changed?’ But it is also, ‘What hasn’t?’ Under the guidance of novelist Dorothy L Sayers, this book is a master class in what it means to put a new shape on old ideas about women in ways that make them bigger, better—and more camouflaged than ever before. This book walks us through our lives and enables us to finally see what’s really going on. If you read only one book this year, make it this one. For the sake of your own depth of vision.’ Joan Chittister OSB