Legalizing Misandry

Lurid and sensationalized events such as the public response to Lorena Bobbitt after she cut off her abusive husband's penis, prurient fascination provoked by Anita Hill's allegations about Clarence Thomas, and the exploitation of the mass murder of fourteen women in Montreal have been processed through popular culture since the 1990s to produce pervasive misandry - contempt for men, the counterpart of misogyny. Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young believe that this reveals a shift in the United States and Canada to a worldview based on ideological feminism, which presents all issues from the point of view of women and, in the process, explicitly or implicitly attacks men as a class. They argue that ideological feminism is silently reshaping law, pubic policy, education, and journalism. "Legalizing Misandry" offers lively and compelling evidence to demonstrate the pervasiveness of this new thinking - from the courts, classrooms, government committees, and corporate bureaucracies to laws and policies affecting employment, marriage, divorce, custody, sexual harassment, violence, and human rights.

ISBN 0773528628   Pages 680 ISBN13 9780773528628 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher McGill-Queen's University Press   Weight (grammes) 1030 Imprint McGill-Queen's University Press   Published in Montreal Format Hardback   Height (mm) 233 Publication date 17 May 2006   Width (mm) 162 Library of Congress HQ   Spine width (mm) 53 DEWEY 305.3   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

1		Children v. demons : the McMartin and other witch hunts		3
2		Wives v. abusers : the Bobbitt affair		21
3		Workers v. harassers : the Hill-Thomas debate		31
4		Martyrs v. murderers : the Montreal massacre		53
5		Women's rights v. human rights ; the case of entitlements		81
6		Maternal rights v. paternal rights : the case of children		125
7		Power v. pleasure : the case of pornography/prostitution		159
8		Separatists v. integrationists : the case of sexual harassment		193
9		Female victims v. male victims : the case of violence against women		223
10		Ideological feminism v. scholarship		269
11		Misandry v. equality		309
App. 1		Responding to our critics : Spreading misandry revisited		329
App. 2		Birth of the bogeyman : one subtext of modern witch hunts		340
App. 3		Misleading the public : statistics abuse		347
App. 4		Silencing men : the trouble with political correctness		365
App. 5		Respectable porn : the debate over romance novels		373
App. 6		Bargaining at Beijing : United Nations or united women		391
App. 7		Paved with entitlements : the road to case		403
App. 8		Here come the feds : studies of affirmative action and pay equity		410
App. 9		Dissing dads : the debate over custody		415
App. 10		Gynotopia : feminism at academic conferences		439
App. 11		A front by any other name : ideology, gender studies, and women's studies		465
App. 12		What's sauce for the goose : double standards in a government report		471
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"Legalizing Misandry is a tour de force that exceeds even Spreading Misandry in power and persuasion." Don Browning, University of Chicago

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