The Woman Racket: The New Science Explaining How the Sexes Relate at Work, at Play and in Society

by Moxon, Steve

• ISBN13: 9781845401092
• ISBN10: 1845401093
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-01
• Publisher: Ingram Pub Services

Summary

Steve Moxon's first book, The Great Immigration Scandal, led to the resignation of the immigration minister, Beverley Hughes. But immigration was never his primary interest: he joined the Home Office in order to study its HR policy, as part of a decade-long investigation of men-women relations. Not withstanding its provocative title, The Woman Racket is a serious scientific investigation into one of the key myths of our age ??? that women are oppressed by the 'patriarchal' traditions of Western societies. Drawing on the latest developments in evolutionary psychology, Moxon finds that the opposite is true ??? men, or at least the majority of ordinary males ??? have always been the victims of deep-rooted prejudice. As the prejudice is biologically derived, it is unconscious and can only be uncovered with the tools of scientific psychology.The book reveals this prejudice in fields as diverse as healthcare, employment, family policy and politics.

Table of Contents

Progressing Backwards: The political and social foreground	p. 1
Why There Are Males	p. 20
The Real 'Power': Intra-sex dominance and female privilege	p. 34
Separate Worlds: The self-segregation of the sexes	p. 55
Difference Incarnate: Sex-typical variation	p. 66
Sex in care: Men's poor health	p. 82
Historical Blindsight: Uncovering social justice in the past	p. 91
The True Sufferers for Suffrage	p. 108
Sex at Work	p. 128
Home Lies: Violence between partners	p. 160
Rape: Fact, Fantasy and Fabrication	p. 179
Who's Exploiting Who: Prostitution defrocked	p. 209
Proscribing Male Thought: Erotica as 'pornography'	p. 229
Excluding the Family: The state as the real absent father	p. 243
Coda: Seeing the Game	p. 274
Bibliography	p. 277
Index	p. 288
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