This book reveals the fundamental architecture of female disenfranchisement—a structure that did not arise by chance, but was deliberately created and stabilized over thousands of years. It shows how institutions, religions, laws, and political elites built a system that not only marginalized women, but defined their marginalization as the norm. But the hardest chapters begin today. The digital age, which presents itself as a machine of liberation, is reconstructing old patterns with new precision. Algorithms reproduce patriarchal distortions, digital violence is becoming commonplace, surveillance technologies particularly affect women, and economic platforms shift power in favor of those who already dominate. The much-vaunted equality is losing ground in the face of automated discrimination. This book decisively contradicts the convenient narrative that we live in a post-patriarchal world. It reveals how female disenfranchisement is changing, modernizing, and refining itself—and how urgent it is to expose its political foundations. It is an indictment. It is a warning. And it is a call to oppose a system that has disenfranchised women for centuries – and is doing so in the digital age in a way that is more dangerous and invisible than ever before. Bremen University Press has published over 5,500 specialist books in various languages since 2005. November 2025