- Hardcover: 300 pages
- Publisher: Imprint Academic (4 Feb 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1845401093
- ISBN-13: 978-1845401092
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 16.8 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,267,109 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Steve Moxon s first book, The Great Immigration Scandal, led to the resignation of the immigration minister, Beverley Hughes. But immigration was never his primary interest: he joined the Home Office in order to study its HR policy, as part of a decade-long investigation of men-women relations. Not withstanding its provocative title, The Woman Racket is a serious scientific investigation into one of the key myths of our age that women are oppressed by the patriarchal traditions of Western societies. Drawing on the latest developments in evolutionary psychology, Moxon finds that the opposite is true men, or at least the majority of ordinary males have always been the victims of deep-rooted prejudice. As the prejudice is biologically derived, it is unconscious and can only be uncovered with the tools of scientific psychology.The book reveals this prejudice in fields as diverse as healthcare, employment, family policy and politics.
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Moxon gets slightly out of his depth in his initial foray into selfish gene territory. Concepts such as "the interest of the reproducing group as a whole" or "the benefit to the whole gene pool" are non-starters. The only interest or benefit, if there is one, is the alpha male's (i.e. his genes'). Beta males simply have no choice but to stay put or confront the alpha male and get killed. The concept of "male filter" (Atmar, 1991) is used in Chapter II to explain why males are genetically such a mixed bag. The idea is that males bear most of the selective pressure. Males are a laboratory in which genes, good or bad, are tested - filtered out or filtered in - via intra-sexual competition. Males fight it out among themselves while females look on. Females then pair off with the winners, thereby securing the best genes for their own offspring. Males have a harder life from the start.
After that the book really takes off and proves to be a mine of sobering information and incisive argumentation.
We are reminded that as recently as 150 years ago, no more than 5% of the men in England had the right to vote. To put it another way: 95% of the men were politically disenfranchised and had no say in the politics of a country that would send them to die on the battlefield. This was the big injustice, not the fact that the 5% landed minority entitled to vote was male rather than female.
Married women, feminists are keen to remind us, were formerly under the legal guardianship of their husbands. Yet this was because women were protected from being sent to debtor's prisons. Whenever a wife wanted to borrow, mortgage or gamble, her husband's signature was required because should the money not be repaid, he was the one who would go to jail. In "Herstory", privilege is presented as discrimination, protection as victimisation.
Meanwhile there's convincing evidence that men, not women, are the main sufferers of domestic violence involving serious bodily harm. The lies and injustices foisted upon men by a female-biased system are only equalled - alas - by men's inability or unwillingness to stand up for their most basic human rights.
My impression upon putting down this riveting book is that feminism is nothing short of organized crime.
After that the book really takes off and proves to be a mine of sobering information and incisive argumentation.
We are reminded that as recently as 150 years ago, no more than 5% of the men in England had the right to vote. To put it another way: 95% of the men were politically disenfranchised and had no say in the politics of a country that would send them to die on the battlefield. This was the big injustice, not the fact that the 5% landed minority entitled to vote was male rather than female.
Married women, feminists are keen to remind us, were formerly under the legal guardianship of their husbands. Yet this was because women were protected from being sent to debtor's prisons. Whenever a wife wanted to borrow, mortgage or gamble, her husband's signature was required because should the money not be repaid, he was the one who would go to jail. In "Herstory", privilege is presented as discrimination, protection as victimisation.
Meanwhile there's convincing evidence that men, not women, are the main sufferers of domestic violence involving serious bodily harm. The lies and injustices foisted upon men by a female-biased system are only equalled - alas - by men's inability or unwillingness to stand up for their most basic human rights.
My impression upon putting down this riveting book is that feminism is nothing short of organized crime.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Read this book, because it is good, informative as far as you trust it, economical and thought provoking, but:
This book makes much of its basis in science, and is heavily referenced. No doubt it is well-founded but as it wears on it becomes more polemical and a little bitter. I found myself wondering whether the author were a Father4Justice. Not that it would invalidate the book; in fact it appears he is involved in "Mankind' - a charity concerned with domestic violence against men; its website has references to research held by the Home Office (lots of British Crime Survey.)
The early material about women as the limiting factor in reproduction with the Y chromosome (i.e. men) as genetic filter is fascinating, and something I'd not heard about.
Of course this book is not a primary work of science, but a referenced digest. However I think especially in the later chapters there is a tendency to career past factual/scientific evidence into rant and polemic (as Damaskcat points out too.) Do not be put off - read this book; but look too at "The Myth of Male Power", by Warren Farrell. Although indigestibly American in presentation, and also now quite old, it probably has more fact and reference.
What are these books for? I think they are trying to say that feminism is generally unopposed (even consented to - because that's what men do) and has much that is damaging alongside the essential and positive, and that therefore opposition, fact and clarity are necessary, so that feminism should mature. Is it the case that feminism has matured? Are there feminists who are "out of control"? Is some such feminism official policy and/or general societal attitude (for example, premeditated homicide as involuntary and not culpable?)
I find these books rather distasteful if gripping reading, but perhaps their authors would predict my reaction: men don't want a fuss or favours, or perhaps even to consider them, and would rather a world that could just get on.
This book makes much of its basis in science, and is heavily referenced. No doubt it is well-founded but as it wears on it becomes more polemical and a little bitter. I found myself wondering whether the author were a Father4Justice. Not that it would invalidate the book; in fact it appears he is involved in "Mankind' - a charity concerned with domestic violence against men; its website has references to research held by the Home Office (lots of British Crime Survey.)
The early material about women as the limiting factor in reproduction with the Y chromosome (i.e. men) as genetic filter is fascinating, and something I'd not heard about.
Of course this book is not a primary work of science, but a referenced digest. However I think especially in the later chapters there is a tendency to career past factual/scientific evidence into rant and polemic (as Damaskcat points out too.) Do not be put off - read this book; but look too at "The Myth of Male Power", by Warren Farrell. Although indigestibly American in presentation, and also now quite old, it probably has more fact and reference.
What are these books for? I think they are trying to say that feminism is generally unopposed (even consented to - because that's what men do) and has much that is damaging alongside the essential and positive, and that therefore opposition, fact and clarity are necessary, so that feminism should mature. Is it the case that feminism has matured? Are there feminists who are "out of control"? Is some such feminism official policy and/or general societal attitude (for example, premeditated homicide as involuntary and not culpable?)
I find these books rather distasteful if gripping reading, but perhaps their authors would predict my reaction: men don't want a fuss or favours, or perhaps even to consider them, and would rather a world that could just get on.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This has to be one of the most important books about men and women published in the past 20 years. It should be read by anyone interested in how men and women relate to each other, along with Esther Vilar's 'The Manipulated Man' (1971), Christina Hoff Sommers's 'Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women' (1994), and Swayne O'Pie's 'Why Britain Hates Men: Exposing Feminism' (2011).
The amount of research behind this book is remarkable. Even for someone as interested in gender politics as myself, there were many facts, figures, and nuanced arguments I hadn't encountered before. A 'must read' for anyone seeking perspectives on the relationship between the genders which actually explains what we see in the real world, not in the imaginary world of modern-day feminists, which is the product of feminists' fantasies, lies, delusions and myths - a world in which men are always bad, and women are always good (and when women aren't good, bad men are the reason).
There are growing signs that women are sick to death of being 'represented' by a small band of man-hating and family-hating angry women - radical feminists - and accepting that (a) gender-typical men and women are different, and (b) these differences largely account for the different life choices made by men and women, which explain the phenomena about which the feminists whine endlessly -employment line choices, the gender pay gap, gender imbalance in the boardroom, and so much more. 'The Woman Racket' is particularly interesting in its descriptions of the psychological dfferences between men and women, and how they largely explain men's and women's life choices. Anyone interested in this issue might also read Prof Susan Pinker's 'The Sexual Paradox', Prof Steven Pinker's 'The Blank Slate', Prof Louann Brizendine's 'The Female Brain', and Prof Simon Baron-Cohen's 'The Essential Difference'.
The amount of research behind this book is remarkable. Even for someone as interested in gender politics as myself, there were many facts, figures, and nuanced arguments I hadn't encountered before. A 'must read' for anyone seeking perspectives on the relationship between the genders which actually explains what we see in the real world, not in the imaginary world of modern-day feminists, which is the product of feminists' fantasies, lies, delusions and myths - a world in which men are always bad, and women are always good (and when women aren't good, bad men are the reason).
There are growing signs that women are sick to death of being 'represented' by a small band of man-hating and family-hating angry women - radical feminists - and accepting that (a) gender-typical men and women are different, and (b) these differences largely account for the different life choices made by men and women, which explain the phenomena about which the feminists whine endlessly -employment line choices, the gender pay gap, gender imbalance in the boardroom, and so much more. 'The Woman Racket' is particularly interesting in its descriptions of the psychological dfferences between men and women, and how they largely explain men's and women's life choices. Anyone interested in this issue might also read Prof Susan Pinker's 'The Sexual Paradox', Prof Steven Pinker's 'The Blank Slate', Prof Louann Brizendine's 'The Female Brain', and Prof Simon Baron-Cohen's 'The Essential Difference'.
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The author's whole premise is women have never been downtrodden, have always been privileged as a sex and have been protected from harm by men. Read more
Published on 29 Nov 2009 by Damaskcat
In my top 5 of all time
After reading Moxon's "Immigrations Scandal" I thought any author whose writings can get a government minister of any political persuasion to resign after they have waffled to the... Read more
Published on 27 Oct 2009 by bucksman
The most important research of our age
This book is a most welcome antidote to the kind of biased "science" works generally pushed in all areas of our lives these days. Read more
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