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Author Baumeister, Roy F.

Title Is there anything good about men? : how cultures flourish by exploiting men / Roy F. Baumeister
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 306 pages)
Contents An odd, unseasonal question -- Are women better than men, or vice versa? -- Can't or wont? Where the real differences are found -- The most underappreciated fact about men -- Are women more social? -- How culture works -- Women, men, and culture : the roots of inequality -- Expendable beings, disposable lives -- Earning manhood, and the male ego -- Exploiting men through marriage and sex -- What else, what next?
Summary Have men really been engaged in a centuries-old conspiracy to exploit and oppress women? Have the essential differences between men and women really been erased? Have men now become unnecessary? Are they good for anything at all? In Is There Anything Good About Men?, Roy Baumeister offers provocative answers to these and many other questions about the current state of manhood in America. Baumeister argues that relations between men and women are now and have always been more cooperative than antagonistic, that men and women are different in basic ways, and that successful cultures capitalize o
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Men.
Men in popular culture.
Equality.
Men
men (male humans)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
Equality
Men
Men in popular culture
Geschlechterpsychologie
Gleichberechtigung
Geschlechterrolle
Mann
Kultur
Mann -- Geschlechtsrolle.
Geschlechtsrolle -- Mann.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199705917
0199705917
9780195374100
019537410X