Legalizing Misandry: From Public Shame to Systemic Discrimination Against Men (Hardcover)

by Paul Nathanson (Author), Katherine K. Young (Author)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0773528628?v=glance&n=266239

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.