Legalizing Misandry: From Public Shame to Systemic Discrimination Against Men by Paul Nathanson & Katherine K. Young

Author:Paul Nathanson & Katherine K. Young [Nathanson, Paul & Young, Katherine K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Men's Studies, Gender Studies, SOC002010
ISBN: 9780773528628
Google: cqKxhhu55SMC
Amazon: 0773528628
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2006-03-20T23:00:00+00:00

It is with this in mind that we will turn in the final volume, Transcending Misandry, to a discussion of men themselves – of men, that is, as distinct from public perceptions of men in popular culture and the effects of those perceptions on legislation. There, we will devote much more attention to men as seen through scholarship than through ideology. Meanwhile, our main points are that gynocentrism has entailed misandry and that misandry has been institutionalized as systemic discrimination in the laws of our countries and the policies of our institutions. This is not merely a matter of perception, even perception filtered through the mass media, but of the fundamental social, economic, and political forces that shape our lives. In some ways, changes over the past thirty years have been beneficial. They have made women full participants in society. In other ways, however, old problems have merely been replaced with newer ones.

We conclude this book on a note of pessimism. Like many other segments of our increasingly fragmented society, women now have a very heavy investment in the rhetoric of victimhood. Not all women, therefore, want to correct or even acknowledge the problems we have examined here. One way of perpetuating the struggle of women no matter how many gains are made is to identify the underlying problem as maleness itself, which can never be corrected (except by eliminating men in some way). Another is to make the standard of correction utopian, which can never be satisfied (except by establishing a totalitarian regime).

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