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Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era

The War on Women strategy has the advantages of uniting progressive women in a common cause and of raising money from women. But it also has disadvantages. First, it frames women as victims under attack. Second, it posits that conservatives are involved in a conscious movement to attack women, which is hard to sell except to liberals and which is

George Lakoff • The Little Blue Book: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic

It would be hard to find a single example in history in which a group that cast more than 50 percent of the vote got away with calling itself the victim. Or an example of an oppressed group which chooses to vote for their “oppressors” more than it chooses to have its own members take responsibility for running. Women are the only minority group

Warren Farrell • The Myth of Male Power

Conservative social scientist Charles Murray’s 2006 book In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State argues that a guaranteed income would be likely to make non-college-educated men more attractive marriage partners.

Martin Ford • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

Demands for recognition without a parallel demand for economic justice is at the heart of why the self is belabored.

Micki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life

A lot will be said about how Trump voters are wrong to vote for him out of their concern about “the economy.” And obviously, what they mean by “the economy” is their pocketbook, their bank balance. But even if they were right (and they’re not), this is a devastating realization: that so many Americans will shrug about the bodies and the needs of... See more

Kate Manne • Broken Bones: America’s Violent Indifference toward Women

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Charlotte Gilman • Herland

Just because a man feels powerless does not mean a woman feels powerful. And just because a woman—or man—is perceived by others to have power, does not mean she or he feels powerful inside of themselves. This is a crucial message of this book because a core flaw of feminism was the assumption that because a woman felt powerless that the man must

Warren Farrell • The Myth of Male Power

The feminist movement was an attempt to break into “a man’s world”—and in the process, through envy, accepted to an alarming extent the values of men.20