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Are men and women really from different planets? In Ceasefire!, journalist and cultural critic Cathy Young argues that our current obsession with personal problems between the sexes has had disastrous consequences for women's progress - and for men's as well. Young believes "the myth of gender difference" has allowed feminists to continue to see women as victims, at the same time buttressing conservatives' claim that the weakening of traditional roles has wreaked havoc on our society.
It's time to re-examine our allegiances in the gender wars.
Drawing on scholarly research, media reports, and real-life cases, Ceasefire! demolishes both feminist and antifeminist fictions. Young challenges men and women to transcend old and new myths, to look beyond the polarities of either denying or exaggerating sex differences, and to value individual uniqueness and flexibility.
To achieve true equality, she says, we must pay attention to sexism against men as well as against women (without turning men into a new victim class) and ask women as well as men to rethink their stereotypical views of the other gender.
Sure to cause controversy across the political spectrum, Ceasefire! surveys a wide range of issues - from career/family conflicts to female violence, from sexual dynamics on the job to the problems of divorced fathers - to offer a surprising vision of true social equality.
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Sex role, Equality, Feminism, New York Times reviewedPlaces
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Ceasefire!: why women and men must join forces to achieve true equality
1999, Free Press
in English
0684834421 9780684834429
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-349) and index.
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