When you look at the history of the world, you would be forgiven to think that men make up the overwhelming majority of the population. After all, most of the names mentioned in history books are males, and those of women are generally just a passing thought. Yet, women have always been there as well as men, and they have influenced the course of history just as men did. Women shaped the world we now live in, even though men have successfully manage to erase the powerful roles that women played in the development of human societies.
Drawn from archeological and ethnographic records, Who Cooked the Last Supper explains how women were relegated from their position of power and authority through a concerted series of actions conducted by males over the centuries. It recounts the struggles that women have engaged in to restore their basic rights as human beings and to be able to make all of the decisions concerning their own lives. Women are not second class citizens, even though our society has given them that role.
Part political treatise, part feminist manifesto, and part realignment of historical realities, Who Cooked the Last Supper will generate many questions for the readers, and lead to a better understanding o f the challenges women face, as well as steps that can be taken to overcome them or, as men, to help take apart the structures that have been imposed on them.
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