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Women Who Make the World Worse: And How Their Radical Feminist Assault Is Ruining Our Schools, Families, Military, and Sports

by Kate O'beirne

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A top conservative writer explores the feminist assault on our families, schools, workplaces, and military

As a woman, Kate ‛Beirne can say things a male commentator could never get away with. In her long-awaited first book, she takes on Americ‛s leading feminists—including Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem, Eleanor Smeal, Maureen Dowd, Kate Michelman, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and even Sex and the City ‛Beirne is all for wome‛s equality and celebrates the unprecedented opportunities they enjoy today. But she faults those feminists who believe that a hostile patriarchy reigns and that women remain its helpless victims. Their agenda is not profemale; i‛s merely antimale.

Women Who Make the World Worse shows how their destructive handiwork can be felt in every corner of American life, including:

• fractured families and dispensable dads

• offices and schools that have become battlegrounds in the gender wars

• military units that put lives at risk to promote social engineering

This book takes on some very powerful women and challenges beliefs that have become feminist orthodoxy, starting with the myth that men are the enemy of wome‛s progress. ‛Beirne marshals her allies, prepares for a good fight, and never loses her sense of humor. This is a provocative book that will appeal to anyone, male or female, who wants some old-fashioned common sense about relations between the sexes.

Every single one of the dead firemen heroes on 9/11 were men. This was one group where liberals did‛t ask why there was‛t a more pleasing gender balance, because the Upper West Side is not fireproof. What happens in combat in some distant field is abstract to liberals, but they can understand the need to have strong, brave men in their fire department” —Kate ‛Beirne

Review:

"The satirical cartoon cover of O'Beirne's book-not to mention the title-is an accurate reflection of the content within: O'Beirne, Washington editor of National Review magazine and a former vice president of the Heritage Foundation, has jumped on the bandwagon of highly politicized books (from both ends of the spectrum) leveling an all-out attack on the American feminist movement. O'Beirne tackles a wide range of issues, from childcare to sports to women in the military, claiming: 'Only the French looked to a teenage girl to lead them into battle.' She has a tendency to link strong arguments (children born into single-family homes are more likely to live in poverty) with her nebulous central thesis-feminists are responsible for the world's ills-without providing sufficient evidence to reinforce these claims. But are feminists really chiefly responsible for the demise of the American family? O'Beirne does bring up some worthy points, such as the fact that women's salaries are essentially equal to men's when accounting for time/job experience lost while raising children, but she tarnishes even her fact-based arguments with slavish adherence to the book's central focus: smearing powerful, left-wing women. The clever chapter titles and argumentative, lively writing style make this book, even for those not inclined to agree with O'Beirne's politics, readable, but O'Beirne's primary readership will undoubtedly enjoy her rousing take on gender politics." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

Synopsis:

A top conservative writer takes on America's leading feminists, confronting them with hard evidence of how women like them have done more harm than good over the last four decades.

About the Author

Kate ‛Beirne was a panelist on CN‛s The Capital Gang for ten years. She is currently the Washington editor of National Review magazine. She is a lawyer and former vice president of the Heritage Foundation.

Product Details

ISBN:
9781595230096
Subtitle:
and How Their Radical Feminist Assault Is Ruining Our Schools, Families, Military, and Sports
Author:
O'beirne, Kate
Author:
O'Beirne, Kate
Publisher:
Sentinel HC
Subject:
Women
Subject:
Feminism & Feminist Theory
Subject:
Feminism
Subject:
Women's Studies - General
Subject:
Popular Culture
Publication Date:
20051229
Binding:
Hardback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
9.28x6.40x.94 in. .94 lbs.

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"Publishers Weekly Review" by , "The satirical cartoon cover of O'Beirne's book-not to mention the title-is an accurate reflection of the content within: O'Beirne, Washington editor of National Review magazine and a former vice president of the Heritage Foundation, has jumped on the bandwagon of highly politicized books (from both ends of the spectrum) leveling an all-out attack on the American feminist movement. O'Beirne tackles a wide range of issues, from childcare to sports to women in the military, claiming: 'Only the French looked to a teenage girl to lead them into battle.' She has a tendency to link strong arguments (children born into single-family homes are more likely to live in poverty) with her nebulous central thesis-feminists are responsible for the world's ills-without providing sufficient evidence to reinforce these claims. But are feminists really chiefly responsible for the demise of the American family? O'Beirne does bring up some worthy points, such as the fact that women's salaries are essentially equal to men's when accounting for time/job experience lost while raising children, but she tarnishes even her fact-based arguments with slavish adherence to the book's central focus: smearing powerful, left-wing women. The clever chapter titles and argumentative, lively writing style make this book, even for those not inclined to agree with O'Beirne's politics, readable, but O'Beirne's primary readership will undoubtedly enjoy her rousing take on gender politics." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
"Synopsis" by , A top conservative writer takes on America's leading feminists, confronting them with hard evidence of how women like them have done more harm than good over the last four decades.
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