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Steve Moxon
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1 Mar 2008 1845401506 978-1845401504
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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  • Paperback: 300 pages
  • Publisher: Imprint Academic (1 Mar 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1845401506
  • ISBN-13: 978-1845401504
  • Product Dimensions: 15.6 x 1.5 x 23.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 326,769 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars References 12 May 2013
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I have yet to read this book but I will digest the comments above. Not sure about the 'author were a Father4Justice' reference. AS I was the FIRST ever member of that group I can never understand the implication that this is some kind of anti-feminist or anti-woman group. There are a lot of victims of DV in the group and are appalled that they are told to beg for time with their children. The group has a very large female membership and I would say is 'non-feminist' (as this ideology is the worst thing that has happened to society ) as its based on hate and supremacy not on hard facts or looking after men and women. We are now the 'sceond sex' and this is hard to understand as its always been about class not gender.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Feminism, the Black Book 22 Oct 2011
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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.
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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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars brilliantly insightful and thought provoking
this is definitely a book for all to read, and definitely for men.

moxon is equally wise, articulate, well-researched (which may not be the same as accurately... Read more
Published 3 months ago by jt lon
5.0 out of 5 stars Feminism is a racket
Steve Moxam's excellent book exposes modern feminism as the mendacious racket that it has become.

Reviewing current research on sex differences in cognition and... Read more
Published 5 months ago by D. F. Dodds
3.0 out of 5 stars The Woman Racket
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
5.0 out of 5 stars 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
5.0 out of 5 stars A remarkable book
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,... Read more
Published on 18 Sep 2009 by Mike Buchanan
5.0 out of 5 stars 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
Published on 7 April 2008 by James
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