Sex matters : how modern feminism lost touch with science, love, and common sense / Mona Charen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Charen, Mona, author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism.

Anti-feminism.

Sex differences (Psychology).

Sex.

Women--Social conditions--21st century.

Women.

Women--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 295 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Crown Forum, [2018]

Contents:

Introduction: At what price?

The feminist mistake. The first wave you've never heard of ; The second wave's historical revisionism ; The first feminist blockbuster ; The sexual revolutionaries ; Pre- and extramarital sex goes mainstream ; The dead hands of Marx and Freud ; Schisms ; Regrets

Vive la difference. Sugar and spice ; Gender

Severing bonds

Hookup culture. Booze ; Bring back the date

The campus rape mess. The campus rape industrial complex ; Star chambers ; Victim blaming ; The elusive numbers ; Crimes ; Sexual assault is not a myth ; Believing victims ; Something is very wrong: it must be men

Family. Toxic masculinity ; A nostalgia trap? ; The ghost of the Moynihan report ; A happiness gap ; Sex wars ; Baby carriage before marriage ; Lost men ; How do you know it's marriage? ; About that clock

Having it all. Motherhood is not oppression ; Social engineers strike out ; The mommy track ; Human flourishing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-281) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Charen, Mona. Sex matters.

ISBN:

9780451498397

0451498399

OCLC:

1011610374