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The War Against Women [Hardcover]

Marilyn French (Author)

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Publisher: Summit; First Edition. edition (1992)
ISBN-10: 0671778293
ISBN-13: 978-0671778293

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When we live in a world where women can be bought, men can rape and kill their wives under the protection of the law, and women are being sexually mutilated against their will a book like this becomes very important. Many may like to believe Marilyn French is a man-hater. I, however, do not. I think some of her ideas and points may seem radical because we are all products of a patriarchical society...we can not help but not see just how wrong things are and how sexist our habits and thinking are when the world we have grown up in is a sexist(among many others things) one.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, well researched analysis., March 5, 2005

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While many will find it easiest to dismiss this book in the manner that the simple-minded dismiss well argued and reasonable controversial works, such dismissal will be much more difficult for intelligent and well educated individuals. Her arguments are powerful and well supported, her observations astute, her conclusions sound and reasonable. This is one of the most important feminist books ever written and an absolute must read for anyone - anyone at all - who is concerned about the global situation of women.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A wake-up call to systematic injustice against women., April 25, 1997

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I learned a great deal from this book, all of it eye-opening. It led me to read _The_Mismeasure_of_Woman_ and to subscribe to Ms. I'm pretty sure the hard-line political "Right" does not want anyone reading this book. It had me fighting mad--but I think that even if one doesn't want to get righteously angry, get informed

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I know woman's rights is so out of "vogue". As it seems the things some had fought so hard for, are slowly being undermined glad to see a new generation of people who care what... Read more

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1.0 out of 5 stars Divisive, hate based radical gender feminist perspective of men.
I was appalled and offended by the hate based demeaning language used to describe men and the over all theme that men are inherently evil oppressors of women. Read more

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1.0 out of 5 stars Biased and distorted facts.
Marilyn French is a "Gender Feminist " not an "Equity Feminist" which in turn has distorted her concept of truth. Read more

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2.0 out of 5 stars Marilyn's radicalized view ruins her strongest points
While Marilyn French is an excellent woman with a credible background from Harvard, I found her assessment of women, especially in America rather inaccurate and blatantly biased... Read more

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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent example of feminist bigotry
A better title for this book would have been "Marilyn French's War Against Men". A classic piece of undiluted male bashing, sexism, prejudice and hate from the woman who... Read more

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If you travel around the world, especially in rural regions, you will notice that everywhere (except in Muslim countries) women are doing most of the work. Read the first page

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war against women, male solidarity

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United States, Soviet Union, Eastern European, Third World, Greenham Common, New Zealand, First Amendment, Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, Marilyn Waring, Muslim Brotherhood, The New York Times, American Protestant, Equal Rights Act, Gloria Steinem, Gush Emunim, New York City, Puerto Rican, Wars of Control, World War

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This book cites 56 books:

Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series by John Berger on page 163, and Back Matter
If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics by Marilyn Waring on page 30, and Back Matter
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition by Edward O. Wilson in Back Matter
Less than conquerors: How Evangelicals entered the twentieth century by Douglas Frank in Back Matter
Ungodly Women: Gender and the First Wave of American Fundamentalism by Betty A. Deberg in Back Matter

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Privilege, Power, and Difference by Allan G Johnson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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