This book has as its subject—as can be seen from the title—the subjection and inferior position of women through the 'different ages and climes', also her position in the various civilizations and religions. To review this book is easiest done by quoting from it. On pp. 12 and 13 the author refers to Havelock Ellis's assertion that 'females have a more tenacious hold upon life because, from nature's point of view, they are of more importance'. The author goes on to explain this statement by quoting among other afflictions occurring more frequently in men than in women, hernia, moral imbecility, sex perversion, juvenile delinquency, insanity, arteriosclerosis and sudden death. In the preface, in which she deplores, as throughout the book, the abuses women are exposed to, she speaks of 'the repulsive Kalmuck, with his grey, flat, sinister face, who beats his wife into submission …'