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

Steve Moxon (Author)

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Publication Date: March 1, 2008

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 297 pages
• Publisher: Imprint Academic (March 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1845401506
• ISBN-13: 978-1845401504
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,121,139 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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42 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Biology as destiny - a devastating response to extreme feminism, February 28, 2008

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This review is from: The Woman Racket: The New Science Explaining How the Sexes Relate at Work, at Playand in Society (Hardcover)

This book is by the same Steve Moxon who, in 2004, wrote the book "The Great Immigration Scandal" - a work which exposed serious problems within England's Home Office, and eventually led to the resignation of the Immigration Minister.

This new book, covering a subject completely unrelated to the previous works's topic, draws on biology and evolutionary psychology theory, as well as recent findings of scientific research in other areas, to destroy the myth promulgated by radical feminists, of women as "oppressed" and men as their "oppressors". Along the way, the reader is given a "popular science" (yet fairly heavy) account of how the male DH (dominance hierarchy) begins with the male gamete's competition to fertilize the female egg, through the extension of this paradigm of male competition to the behaviour of adult males. Also, the "place" of the female, while lying outside the strict DH, is expained largely by the female's fundamental desire to find and mate with men of perceived high status (which Moxon apparently considers to include ecomomic, political, and social standing, in addition to the male's physical attractiveness).

Being a men's rights activist, what I really like about the book is its devastating critique of "radical" or "ideological" feminism (what Moxon calls "extreme" feminism). Destruction of feminist myths is infused throughout the book, as the other major topic besides the aforementioned, and includes, among a wide range of phenomena, topics such as why men are in such poor health compared to women, feminist lies concerning domestic violence and rape, and workplace gender issues. Each of these topics is tied in with the biological, evolutionary, and other aspects of differences between men and women

Overall, I find this book to be an excellent companion to Warren Farrell's "The Myth of Male Power", which describes the "what", whereas Moxon purports to give the corresponding "why". In fact these two books, plus Nathanson and Young's "Legalizing Misandry", will give the sophisticated reader a firm grasp of men's and gender issues, the "why" of our current situation regarding gender relations, and the extent to which ideological feminists have caused much harm to society.

Edit 11/18/09: If I had to review this book again, I would give it only 4 stars. The reason is that Moxon devotes an entire chapter to how the political Left has screwed everything up, with the supposed applicability to feminism being that the Left is at fault for historically 'causing' the problem. But regardless of the validity of that opinion, this kind of thing has little or no place in the book, and in fact it encourages divisiveness in the men's movement along political lines, and scares off potential men's rights allies who lean left. Of course this is not a "men's rights book" as such, but effective men's and father's movements are necessary components to bring about the end of radical feminism and its evils. Besides, Moxon should have at least realized that inclusion of a political rant would alienate a lot of people who might otherwise be attracted to the parts of the book which are objectively based.

24 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent!, March 2, 2008

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Bernard Chapin "Ora Et Labora!" (CHICAGO! USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Woman Racket: The New Science Explaining How the Sexes Relate at Work, at Playand in Society (Hardcover)

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Hi, I'm Bernard Chapin and I've decided to dedicate an episode of Chapin's Inferno--a wandering cauldron of politically incorrect commentary--to this superlative work by Steve Moxon.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb, July 26, 2009

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This review is from: The Woman Racket: The New Science Explaining How the Sexes Relate at Work, at Play and in Society (Paperback)

Steve Moxon could put the whole Star Trek team to shame. He really has gone in places where no man dared go before (and probably won't dare go for some years yet).

Beginning with the historical and biological facts surrounding men and women, The Woman Racket goes from interesting, to very interesting, to fascinating, to exciting.

Any man or woman with a sense of justice will on the one hand feel anger at what the book reveals, and on the other feel a sense of optimism that the crooks behind the scam of feminism -- politicians, journalists, social services, judges -- are finally being exposed.

To echo Five Points Higher's review, this book is the ideal follow-up to Warren Farrell's classic The Myth of Male Power. It is as well-researched and well-referenced. It completes the picture superbly in a post-2000 context.