Introduction: misandry in popular culture -- Laughing at men: the last of Vaudeville -- Looking down on men: separate but unequal -- Bypassing men: women alone together -- Blaming men: a history of their own -- Dehumanizing men: from bad boys to beasts -- Demonizing men: the devil is a man -- Making the world safe for ideology: the roots of misandry -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: quasi-misandric movies -- Appendix 2: the misandric week on television -- Appendix 3: misandric movie genres -- Appendix 4: populist or elitist: talk shows in the context of democracy -- Appendix 5: deconstructionists and Jacques Derrida, founding hero -- Appendix 6: film theory and ideological feminism -- Appendix 7: into the twenty-first century
Summary
Nathanson and Young urge us to rethink prevalent assumptions about men that result in profoundly disturbing stereotypes that foster contempt. Spreading Misandry breaks new ground by discussing misandry in moral terms rather than purely psychological or sociological ones and by criticizing not only ideological feminism but other ideologies on both the left and the right
