Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [426]-428) and index.
About the Author
Warren Farrell, Ph.D., is the author of Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say and The Myth of Male Power. Dr. Farrell taught at the School of Medicine of the University of California in San Diego, and has taught psychology, sociology, and political science at Georgetown, Rutgers, and Brooklyn College. He is the only man elected three times to the board of N.O.W. in New York City. He lives in Encinitas, California.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: The Myth of Male Power
1. Is Male Power Really a Myth? A First Glance
2. Stage I to Stage II: How Successful Men Freed Women (But Forgot to Free Themselves)
3. Are "Power," "Patriarchy," "Dominance," and "Sexism" Actually Code Words for Male Disposability?
Part II: The "Glass Cellars" of the Disposable Sex
4. The Death Professions: "My Body, Not My Choice"
5. War Hero or War Slave?: The Armed Prostitute
6. The Suicide Sex: If Men Have the Power, Why Do They Commit Suicide More?
7. Why Do Women Live Longer?
8. The Insanity Track
9. Violence against Whom?
10. If We Cared As Much about Saving Males As Saving Whales, Then...
Part III: Government as Substitute Husband
An Overview
11. How the System Protects Women, Or... Two Different Laws We Live In
12. Women Who Kill Too Much and the Courts That Free Them: The Twelve "Female-Only" Defenses
13. The Politics of Sex
14. The Politics of Rape
15. From Husband Sam to Uncle Sam: Government as Substitute Husband
Part IV: Where Do We Go From Here?
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index