Kyle Harrison
to-read
Off With Her Head
Off with Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power
- Author
- Eleanor Herman
- Published
- 2022
- Pages
- 384
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Herman runs the same attack lines — she’s ugly, she’s a witch, she’s a whore, she’s too old — from Cleopatra and Anne Boleyn through to modern candidates, and shows how little the script has changed.
Where I saw it: Recommended in a BookTok video by Carrie (@carriereadsbooks) that Kyle saved to his Apple Note “Books To Read” — his own note on the list: books to prepare for a Trump presidency. Video: https://www.tiktok.com/@carriereadsbooks/video/7434519243615472927
Connections
- Democracy — the arena the script now runs in.