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"In our culture, it's fine to say that men are brutes. This book is a welcome antidote." Globe and Mail "It's about time! Spreading Misandry is a major achievement in raising awareness of how men are insidiously and indifferently attacked in popular culture." Everyman: A Men's Journal "Genuinely intelligent and insightful. Spreading Misandry is provocative and will help point the way toward social harmony." Donna Laframboise, columnist for The National Post and author of The Princess at the Window: A New Gender Morality "What makes Spreading Misandry a useful book is that it puts a small spoke in the works of the large and noisy machinery of moral indignation that feminism has succeeded in constructing in academe and the media over the last 20 years." The Sunday Independent
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Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young argue that since the 1990s men have been portrayed in popular culture as evil, inadequate, or honorary women, from "Designing Women", "Home Improvement", "Oprah", and "Cape Fear" to Hallmark cards, comic strips, and the "New York Times" columns of Anna Quindlen. The first of a three-part series, "Spreading Misandry" offers an impressive critique of popular culture to identify a phenomenon that is just now being recognized as a serious cultural problem - misandry, the sexist counterpart of misogyny. Nathanson and Young urge us to rethink prevalent assumptions about men that result in profoundly disturbing stereotypes that foster contempt. "Spreading Misandry" breaks new ground by discussing misandry in moral terms rather than purely psychological or sociological ones and by criticizing not only ideological feminism but other ideologies on both the left and the right.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As an analysis of the institutionalized misandry of our culture, this book has few equals, & belongs up there with what will one day be seen as 'the canon' of Warren Farrell, Christine Hoff Sommmers & Steven Goldberg. Having read the previous reviews i was pleasantly surprised at how very readable this book actually is - the points it makes about the hatred of men in all aspects of our culture are extremely well-argued & erudite but based on parts of our culture [books, films, tv shows] that we all have immediate experience of & see everyday.
The only bad thing about it is the awful cover[!] Let's hope by the time this is taught in schools there's something nicer to look at on the front.. :)
The only bad thing about it is the awful cover[!] Let's hope by the time this is taught in schools there's something nicer to look at on the front.. :)
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
In this fascinating book, authors Paul Nathanson and Katherine K. Young look at the pervasiveness of misadry (hatred and belittling of men) in American popular culture. Throughout the book, the authors give a great many examples of blatant misandry, and then carefully put them into context within the feminist worldview. The final chapter is, though, the crowning glory of this book, examining what ideology is, and how modern feminism is an ideology and what that means for ourselves and our future.
This is a fascinating and eye-opening book. I do believe that anyone who even casually watches television or movies is aware of a prevalent misandry, but the authors of this book go a long way towards putting the phenomenon in context, showing why it is being done and by whom. If you are interested in the course that American culture is taking, and why, then I highly recommend this book to you.
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
What, no reviews yet?? Bet lots of people...and not just men...have read and liked the book, but are afraid to put their heads above the parapet.
A good book, with some very detailed analysis of films and TV programmes which illustrate how acceptable misandry has become in mainstream culture. Sadly, as a UK resident, some of the American TV programmes referred to were unfamiliar to me.
The analysis was very scholastic, very academic, which might put some people off. NOT a light read for the beach, but still very worthy.
If I have any outright criticisms to make, it's that the book does not deal with the acceptability of female-on-male violence in the media. There is a brief reference to the acceptability of the female-male slap ( as opposed to the reverse, I suppose), and that is all.
I look forward to the forthcoming books in the series.
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