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Women Who Make the World Worse: and How Their Radical Feminist Assault Is Ruining Our Schools, Families, Military, and Sports Hardcover – December 29, 2005

by Kate O'Beirne (Author)
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A controversial analysis of how top feminist leaders may be compromising American institutions seeks to establish a difference between "pro-female" and "anti-male" forms of feminism, in a volume that cites the negative influences of such figures as Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem, and Maureen Dowd. 30,000 first printing.
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    December 29, 2005
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    6.24 x 1.06 x 9.24 inches
  7. ISBN-10
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The satirical cartoon cover of O'Beirne's book-not to mention the title-is an accurate reflection of the content within: O'Beirne, Washington editor of National Review magazine and a former vice president of the Heritage Foundation, has jumped on the bandwagon of highly politicized books (from both ends of the spectrum) leveling an all-out attack on the American feminist movement. O'Beirne tackles a wide range of issues, from childcare to sports to women in the military, claiming: "Only the French looked to a teenage girl to lead them into battle." She has a tendency to link strong arguments (children born into single-family homes are more likely to live in poverty) with her nebulous central thesis-feminists are responsible for the world's ills-without providing sufficient evidence to reinforce these claims. But are feminists really chiefly responsible for the demise of the American family? O'Beirne does bring up some worthy points, such as the fact that women's salaries are essentially equal to men's when accounting for time/job experience lost while raising children, but she tarnishes even her fact-based arguments with slavish adherence to the book's central focus: smearing powerful, left-wing women. The clever chapter titles and argumentative, lively writing style make this book, even for those not inclined to agree with O'Beirne's politics, readable, but O'Beirne's primary readership will undoubtedly enjoy her rousing take on gender politics.
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O'Beirne, an editor with National Review and a former panelist on CNN's Capital Gang, takes the feminist movement to task, charging it with responsibility for assorted social ills from broken families to increased risk to the military with female recruits. She cites some of America's best-known feminists, including Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem, Maureen Dowd, Kate Michelman, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Despite defeat of the ERA, these women, and the feminist movement in general, have managed to influence American culture to the detriment of women. Lamenting the "totalitarian" methods of the modern women's movement, O'Beirne maintains that advancements for women should not be credited to the women's movement but to intrepid women--including Catholic school nuns--who were hard at work breaking down barriers without celebration or official causes behind them. O'Beirne catalogs all the ways that feminism has weakened families, coarsened culture, and burdened the government. Readers interested in different perspectives on women's issues will appreciate O'Beirne's strongly held viewpoint. Vanessa Bush
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1595230092
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sentinel HC (December 29, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781595230096
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1595230096
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.24 x 1.06 x 9.24 inches
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Peter Wrenshall
5.0 out of 5 stars Ignore the "technological book-burners"
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2006
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Apparently, a huge number of people, in an attempt to artificially degrade this book's overall rating in Amazon's reader review section, have submitted one-star ratings for "Women

Who Make the World Worse" without reading the book - in fact there are websites that recommend this tactic. Once again the Left, when it can't win in an honest debate, resorts to deceit and manipulation, a point which Kate O'Beirne brings up in her book. It's legitimate, and understandable, especially given the author's combative style, for liberals to refuse to read her book - there are plenty of books by left-wing writers that I couldn't stand to read myself. What is not acceptable is for them to abuse the forum that Amazon provides for honest criticism. Don't read the book - fine. But if you want to review the book, at least read it first. Don't poison the marketplace of ideas.

O'Beirne's withering contempt for radical feminism is obvious

on almost every page but with the mountain of well-documented

evidence and historical fact she marshals, that contempt is richly deserved. Her chapters on institutional day care, the

radicals' anti-family agenda, women in the military and college

sports and other key issues are well worth the read, but what should be especially eye-opening was her demonstration of how modern-day feminists have systematically lied about the ideas and goals of their early 20th-century forebears in the service of their pro-abortion, anti-family agenda. One can, as I do, be in favour of a woman's right to choose to end a pregnancy (subect to reasonable regulation). But we are also obliged to engage the issue honestly and fairly. Moreover, those who oppose abortion on principle deserve a lot more tolerance from the pro-choice side than they've gotten up to now.

The radical feminists' bad-faith caterwauling aside, the life

choices of all women, whether to become traditional homemakers or

leaders in business and public affairs, should be respected and

honoured. No one has made this case better than Kate O'Beirne.
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Kendal Brian Hunter
4.0 out of 5 stars "public toilets are among the very few openly segregated spaces in contemporary Western culture"
Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2006
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First of all, this book is not designed to persuade the indecisive, thought in a secondary sense it does accomplish this. Its primary function is to sharpen the argument of the True Believers.

As I read this book, I kept thinking of Ayn Rand's dictum "A=A." Women have distinct and obvious differences that feminists deny-or half-deny. That is the feminists want equality, but on an unequal basis. They want women to retain corporate seniority, while taking off time to rear children. They are trying to have their cake and eat it, too-(Ayn Rand again.)

Two key chapters are "In the classroom . . . Boys will be Girls" and "G. I Janes." The feminist movement is trying to masculinize women and feminize men. The practical result is that men are, by state fiat, marginalized, and women are being put at risk in firefights by having lower standards. This is exactly what the Enemy and the terrorists want.

The crucial chapter is the last one, where O'Beirne lays the metaphysical case for differences between men and woman. The essence of the chapter can be distilled to the discussion on public toilets:

"In 2005 Olga Gershenson of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Barbara Penner of University College in London invited contributions for the collection they were editing entitled Toilet Papers: The Gendered Construction of Public Toilets. This feminist scholarship `will work from the premise that public toilets, far from being banal or simply functional, are highly charged spaces, shaped by notions of propriety, hygiene and the binary gender division.' They point out that `public toilets are among the very few openly segregated spaces in contemporary Western culture,' and so `provide a fertile ground for critical work interrogating how conventional assumptions about the body, sexuality, privacy, and technology can be formed in public space and inscribed through design.'"

"If even the biological imperative to, ahem, either stand or sit is seen as an example of the repressive `gender division' and a result of `conventional assumptions' about sex differences, it's little wonder that feminists reject the convincing evidence about the less immediately obvious differences in male and female anatomy, beginning with the brain." (193)

Exactly!

On avenue that O'Beirne does not pursue is the male's "superior systemizing skills" (196). She suggests that the male's facility "for understanding and building systems" makes them hard-wired to be "good scientists, engineers, architects, electricians, bankers, and toolmakers." (192,196).

One system that O'Beirne does not mention is philosophy. C. S. Lewis noted that "the proper glory of the masculine mind [is] its disinterested concern with truth for truth's own sake, with the cosmic and the metaphysical, is being impaired." (Present Concerns, 51). The best example of thy systemizing, organizing, and philosophizing skill is Thomas Aquinas's "Summa Theoloigca." Ayn Rand's philosophy was posthumously systemized and organized by Dr. Leonard Peikoff.

This is crucial, since ideas carry consequences. If males, in then general, have better systemizing skills, then the feminists would take heed to their alternative voice.
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Chester Perry
5.0 out of 5 stars better than the amazon reviews indicate
Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2006
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Kate O'Beirne writes for the National Review. Whatever your opinion on women's rights, she is articulate. If the book had a less insulting cover, maybe more people might check it out and agree with at least some of her views. The gist of her argument is that men and women are meant to complement one another. She does not want to see hostility between the sexes, but rather peaceful and harmonious coexistence. Certainly, there has been no shortage of abuse of women all over the world and over many centuries. However, there are many good and worthy men deserving of respect.

The author centers on the more radical theorists among feminist academics to illustrate her point. Many of these women attack men in the classroom and berate "the patriarchy." She argues that, since women have the ability to bear children, they have to make choices that men do not. This carries into some interesting discussions about comparable worth and whether women have made strides in their careers and compensation versus men. O'Beirne interviews women who were devoted to their careers and others who were more family oriented. She believes that the only reason women, on average, make less than men is because they choose to leave the work force to bear children.
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