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Product Details

  • Paperback: 488 pages
  • Publisher: Berkley Trade; Reissue edition (January 9, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0425181448
  • ISBN-13: 978-0425181447
  • Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 1.2 x 8.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (163 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #472,795 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly

Men who make their way through the interminable subtitle and embark on this orignal and significant study will find that they haven't lost the ability to cry after all. While some feminists may assert that it is an attack on women, the book attempts to show areas in which males operate at a disadvantage without claiming that women are responsible for their plight. Psychologist Farrell stresses economics, pointing out that the 25 worst types of jobs, involving the highest physical risk, are almost all filled by men. He also considers warfare, in which virtually all of the military casualties are men; the justice system, where sentences for males are customarily heavier; and sexual harassment, which has become a one-way street. He concludes with helpful advice on "resocializing" the male child, adolescent and adult. Clever cartoons enliven the text.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal

This seminal work challenges, debunks, and redirects many of the paradigms held about men and their relationships with women. Farrell ( The Liberated Man , LJ 2/1/75; Why Men Are The Way They Are , LJ 9/1/86) calls for a gender transition movement not specifically limited to men or feminists. He shows how men's workshops and feminist organizations promulgate sexism and support limited goals while not fully addressing the issues and responsibilities involved in fully empowering both sexes. Farrell's endnotes are more diversified and complete than many dissertations. This title is more important to the male/female relationship discussion than Robert Bly's Iron John ( LJ 11/15/90), Michael Gurian's The Prince and the King ( LJ 7/92), Sam Keen's Fire in the Belly ( LJ 2/15/91), or any of Betty Friedan's works (e.g., The Feminine Mystique , LJ 1/1/63). Recommended for all public and academic libraries.
- Scott Johnson, Meridian Community Coll. Lib., Miss.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Despite the strengths of The Myth of Male Power there will always be detractors to Dr. Warren Farrell's work.
Pradeep Ramanathan
For the men: This book will help you understand many of the ways that you have been treated that have remained a mystery to you.
Tom Golden
At one point, the person running the site even claims Farrell to have written a book, which he in fact never wrote!
Five Points Higher

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271 of 312 people found the following review helpful By Pradeep Ramanathan on January 22, 2000
Format: Paperback
The Myth of Male Power, by author and gender-reconciliation champion, Dr. Warren Farrell, is truly a landmark work. Over the course of the next century it will come to be seen for what it is: a bold and inexorable challenge to American society to rethink from its deepest foundations the present and past attitudes and approaches towards gender equality - an approach that has been dominated by victim feminism. The Myth of Male Power confronts the politically correct myths that undermine true equality and gender reconciliation. Given the current climate of politically correct misandry and the feminist hegemony of gender discourse, it takes tremendous courage to challenge the orthodoxy and establishment. Both Dr. Farrell and his publisher, Simon & Schuster, deserve the highest kudos for their willingness to face the fire on this one.
One thing that makes The Myth of Male Power so fair-minded and authentic is that it affirms the legitimate concerns of women. Because of this, no female reader need fear that it is simply the flip side of feminism (ie: an ideology that preaches that society is actually not male-dominated and patriarchal, but female dominated and matriarchal, and that all problems are due to women with men its primary victims). This is important because it helps fair-minded men and women to see that Dr. Farrell is not seeking to replace feminism with masculism, or engage in "backlash". Indeed it demonstrates his absolute and unwavering commitment to real gender equality and fairness. At the same time, Dr. Farrell does not limit the discussion of gender to women's issues.
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91 of 102 people found the following review helpful By A Customer on January 21, 1999
Format: Audio Cassette
Around the time he published his most recent and to date most radical book, "The Myth of Male Power," Warren Farrell released these audiocassettes of the same title. Farrell's own recommendation of these tapes as the second step in educating the uninitiated about men's issues (the tapes of "Why Men Are the Way They Are" being the first step) is very well-taken. Information and philosophy are presented engagingly, accessibly, with little fluff or fanfare. Indeed, given Farrell's measured, reasonable voice and carefully presented, step-by-step documentation of his positions, the listener could be forgiven for momentarily failing to notice just how radical a vision of men's position these tapes present. It is only by reference to the current, twisted state of gender politics that one can even understand why Farrell's common-sense, compassionate, incisive approach is seen by some as so "dangerous."
The truth is that these tapes ARE dangerous. They imperil the listener's ability ever again to believe many of the whoppers masquerading as received truths about the "patriarchy," the alleged lower moral fiber of men relative to women, men's supposedly greater power, and many other myths. Farrell reminds us that neither gender wins unless both sexes win.
The tapes take the form of a dialog between the author and a male interviewer who leaves no feminist stone unturned in his scrutiny of Farrell's position. A former three-time New York City National Organization of Women board member, Farrell has no difficulty acknowledging the areas where women truly have been oppressed. But he also is not afraid to demolish some of the favored shibboleths about women's suffering.
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Format: Kindle Edition
Occasionally you find a book that profoundly changes the way you think and interact with the world. Some get carried away with 50 Shades Of Grey, and yet here we have a book that used the unflinching light of day to illuminate the human condition and human sexuality in a gripping read that does not deal in fantasy.

There has been much unjust, fallacious and malicious representation of Farrel from reactionary radical feminists who have hated his clarity and and his removal of cover used by them. This is a book I would recommend to anyone, with the warning that it is a Pandora's Box which leaves you looking at the future of gender discourse with hope and not the futile resignation cultivated over the last 30 or so years.

Male Disposability is a term coined from long observation of real social behaviours and thinking. To look at the world in a fresh way we often have to leave our common a day language behind and use new vocabulary. It's to Farrel's credit that he not only uses new and clear language but makes sure it's accessible and meaningful. Readers may be uncomfortable with "Male Disposability" as a reality, but they will be clear about what it is and how it happens. How they act thereafter is a matter of choice and not ignorance.

Farrell does not fear to look at reality, expose it clearly and put it before the reader with clarity. On the issue of work place deaths he says:

"“Women do not enter a profession in significant numbers until it is physically safe. So until we care enough about men's safety to turn the death professions into safe professions, we in effect discriminate against women.” "

Men die in the workplace at least ten time more often than women, and women avoid jobs with high physical risk.
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