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k0rfu's review
medium-paced
1.0
Do men even like women? Maybe men should read more feminist literature written by women 😵💫
egeorjeana's review
4.0
A very well written and thought-provoking book. I highly recommend to any men that seek to empower the women in their lives, any women that seek to empower themselves and ask for more, and anyone that has ever known a woman. Learn how you can do your part to reanalyze the circumstances in which you have been raised.
gef's review
3.0
This little essay I hope many men will read, especially if you have been skeptical or puzzled by the vehemence of the MeToo movement. Liogier says he wrote it because he was "aghast" (his word) at some of the things that came out in the trials of his countryman, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and of Weinstein, and revelations about Trump and his closest buddies' abuses of women, just because they could. And probably because, as he tells us, he has a teenage daughter. He wrote it to cure his own ignorance of the terrible history of abuse and degradation of women, and to seek answers to his questions as to why and how generally it occurs. Very generally, as his readings of anthropological and other literature make clear, from earliest times and in all parts of the world. He takes pains to "explode... the myth" of matriarchal societies existing in the remote past; the most we can say, from the literature, is that there have been societies where women were better off and equal or nearly equal to men, but nowhere did women rule (property, tribal laws, etc.) as have men most typically. For many men, this book can serve as a quick introduction to gender studies, with a useful starter bibliography. Women may want to read it, too, out of curiosity and for things they may not be aware of, but I doubt that his argument about how we guys can be so crude will be news to any adult woman. It is embarrassing to us men, at least those of us who care about a partner, a daughter, or about other human beings.
jaymeeloo's review
3.0
The title is misleading. I was expecting a discussion of maleness in relation to the status of women from a male perspective. But only the short introduction and the epilogue touch upon this in any way. The rest is a discourse on the current and historic inequality of the sexes, with not much new insight offered.
I suppose it would be a good introduction to the topic of gender inequality for male readers more comfortable with a male author on the subject (ironically).
I suppose it would be a good introduction to the topic of gender inequality for male readers more comfortable with a male author on the subject (ironically).
acweber's review
INTERESTING. Four stars for being far more advanced in feminist politics than any other French man I've ever met or read, but the bar is underground