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Does feminism discriminate against men? : a debate /

Does feminism give a much-needed voice to women in a patriarchal world? Or is the world not really patriarchal? Has feminism begun to level the playing field in a world in which women are more often paid less at work and abused at home? Or are women paid equally for the same work and not abused more...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Farrell, Warren
Other Authors: Svoboda, Steven, Sterba, James P.
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Series:Point/counterpoint series (Oxford, England)
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Online Access:Table of contents only
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1 : Does feminism discriminate against men? / Warren Farrell
  • Do we need men's studies? History is men's studies, right?
  • Do men have the power?
  • What the all-male draft and the combat exclusion of women tell us about men, women, and feminism
  • Why do men die sooner and whose health is being neglected?
  • Domestic violence : who is doing the battering, and what's the solution?
  • The politics and psychology of rape, sex, and love
  • Does the criminal justice system discriminate against men?
  • Why men earn more : discrimination? choices?
  • Are women doing two jobs while men do one?
  • Marriage, divorce, and child custody
  • Does popular culture discriminate against men?
  • Are schools biased against girls? Or boys?
  • Part 2 : Does feminism discriminate against men? / James P. Sterba
  • The future of feminism and men
  • Do we need men's studies--or is history men's studies?
  • Do men have the power--and if so, would they want to change?
  • What the all-male draft and the combat exclusion of women tell us about men, women, and feminism
  • Why do men die sooner, and whose health is being neglected?
  • Domestic violence : who is doing the battering, and what's the solution?
  • Rape, date rape : how should we respond?
  • Is the criminal justice system sexist?
  • Why men earn more : discrimination? choices?
  • Are women doing two jobs while men do one?
  • Marriage, divorce, and child custody
  • Do popular culture and the media discriminate against men?
  • Are schools biased against women? or men?
  • The future of feminism and men.