The following essay is an adapted excerpt from Carrie Gress' new book, The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us, out August 15 from Regnery. Fairy tales have been told across ...

Fear old women in fairy tales. For as long as people have been telling stories, crones have been scaring the wits out of children. But why does the face of evil so often belong to an old woman?

As 2016, this year of upheavals, draws to a close, "Waves of anger and fear/ Circulate over the bright/ And darkened lands of the earth,/ Obsessing our private lives" (W.H. Auden). For many people, ...