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Hating Women: America's Hostile Campaign Against the Fairer Sex Hardcover – April 8, 2005

by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (Author)
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From the author of the internationally bestselling Kosher Sex. A wake-up call about the growing trend of misogyny in our culture-as evidenced by the flood of reality TV shows, ads, and lyrics that portray women as brainless bimbos, or worse

Shmuley Boteach, the social commentator and outspoken relationship guru, shares his grave concerns about our society's growing contempt for women. Turn on the television: Reality TV shows such as The Bachelor, For Love or Money, and Average Joe boost their ratings by showing attractive women in competition for one man, one man's money, or both. On a "quest for true love," these women quickly devolve into a pit of vipers-and millions of Americans tune in each week for more. During commercial breaks, women are objectified to sell beer, cars, and every other product under the sun. Flip on the radio: Women are bitches, hos, and gold diggers, at least if you listen to the rap lyrics pumping out into our mass consciousness. And female pop stars like Britney and Madonna, says Boteach, have pushed the envelope past provocative and into the downright pornographic. 'Tween girls across the country follow their lead, and standards for how women should be treated plummet.

Perhaps one of the most troubling aspects of this trend, he says, is women's complicity in their own degradation. Either they've become resigned to base stereotypes, or worse, they've bought into these mass market values (hence the deluge of shows like The Swan and Extreme Makeover, on which female contestants insist they need a new nose, teeth, or boobs to feel a positive sense of self-esteem). "There are strong consequences," writes Boteach, "in a world where men have no respect for women and women have no respect for themselves."

Greedy gold diggers, brainless bimbos, publicity prostitutes, and backstabbing bitches-are these the stereotypes we want our sons and daughters bombarded by as they grow up? Hating Women offers a vision of how we can correct this downward spiral-along with a strong argument for why we absolutely must.

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  1. Print length
    336 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    William Morrow
  4. Publication date
    April 8, 2005
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 1.09 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    006078122X
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0060781224
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  • Theresa Mangano
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Values Reset
    Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2018
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    Excellent book! A refreshing reset of lost values that helps society regain our original God given perspective of female beauty and worth. Thank you for being a healthy healing voice among all the disparaging ones we are exposed to daily. Everyone should read this book and pass it on to all their friends and family members.
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  • Kate London
    5.0 out of 5 stars "Without Ladies, There Can Be No Gentlemen"-Rabbi Schmuley Boteach
    Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2013
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    This book is a must-read, if you are concerned with the current level of ever-growing misogyny seen in our modern culture. I have always been a steadfast fan of Rabbi Schuley Boteach's work and writings, and this book should be an addition to any Women's Study's collection, academic or personal.
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  • Murrayfan
    5.0 out of 5 stars Phenomenal Book on Women Hating
    Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2009
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    For me, this was easily one of Shmuley's best books. He has a great sense of problems facing a woman in America. and dares to think about what that's like, touching on a very tangent subject not often mentioned. Additionally his books are very readable and interesting.
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  • Peyton Daisy
    2.0 out of 5 stars Hating Women - LocalPlan.org Review
    Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2010
    I was initially excited about the title as I thought that it might provide insight into current barriers and problem areas regarding inter-gender communications. On its face, the book offers to examine gender issues and the ways in which women are subjugated and objectified. As I trudged through the reading, I found out that the author (Schmuley Boteach) isn't as concerned with gender issues as he is with attempting to preserve his own lifestyle by attempting to grant it some form of moral superiority (while openly condemning the secular world).

    Boteach's writing clearly lacks a valuable female perspective. Throughout Hating Women he presents little more than his own opinion. The ideas are not cited or supported by any references to analytical literature and in some instances Boteach goes so far as to use the book as a marketing platform for his other titles. I don't mean to discredit Boteach's opinion, clearly it has value as does anyone's, but relying so heavily on his own ideas distracts from his credibility.

    There are elements of truth peppered throughout the book and I'd be lying if I said it didn't force me to challenge some of my own preconceptions with regard to gender relations. Hating Women simply wasn't the book for me. I was hoping for something that was more deeply analytical, something that objectively weighed opposing viewpoints, and something that genuinely made me a more well-read person on the topic. What I got was a book written by an individual who is revered as a "talking head" on relationship issues and a book that was very much dedicated to a styling indicative of the crisis setting that he is accustomed to conversing in.

    If you are looking to better understand communications and what can pose limitations in inter-gender communications, this isn't your book. If you are looking to understand some of the secularist vs. traditionalist debate when it comes to gender, you might find this book of more value. Don't expect to walk away with information on more complex gender issues (homosexuality or gender as a social construct), it's simply not there. Hating Women focuses largely on romantic relationships and the social norms that the author finds to be devolving.
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  • Louise Culmer
    3.0 out of 5 stars Women on a pedestal
    Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2005
    Shmuley Boreach believes that women in modern America are treated with contempt, portrayed my the media as brainless, selfish golddiggers. He laments the past when women were treated by men with awe and reverence.

    women, he believes are the superior sex, and it is a woman's job to civilise the savage, brutal male and make him fit for matrimony. To this end, he believes that women must dress modestly, refrain from having sex before marriage, and never tolerate any coarse behaviour by their men. women must be put back on their pedestal.

    He makes some rather curious assumptions about the past, his idea that women have in the pastinvariably been treated with awe and reverence by men is doubtful to say the least. He laments the fact that women nowadays are admired more for their looks than their brains, but I'm not aware of any era in history when this has not been the case. And mercenary marriages, which he seems to see as a modern invention, were the norm rather than the exception in ages past, you only have to look at the novels of Jane austen for instance, to see how closely money and matrimony were linked two hundred years ago.

    He seems to have it in particularly for Britney Spears, who he regards as the archetype of the brainless, talentless, promiscuous bimbo who is admired for her looks rather than for her singing. My oldest son had a crush on Britney Spears when he was about fifteen (though he would deny it now) and said he wanted to marry her. It pains me somewhat therefore to hear Miss Spears spoken of so slightingly, since if she and my son had ever had an opportunity to meet, she might have been my daughter-in-law. However, Mr Boteach seems to regard her as being almost single-handedly responsible for the contempt with which women are treated (he believes) today.

    Belching is another subject that preoccupies Mr Boteach, a man should never ever belch in front of his wife, it is the ultimate in degredation. What a man should do if he inadvertently releases a belch in front of his wife I don't know, shoot himself perhaps.

    Girls, he believes, need protecting from wicked, predatory men, his own daughters are not allowed to date until they are nineteen or twenty (what his daughters think of this arrangement he doesn't mention). Women are the victims of men's foul lust, and must never have sex with a man unless he has earned it through chivalrous and reverent behaviour.

    He also wants to stop women going shopping "Girls and women should be weaned off a materialistic culture of shopping, fashion, and beauty and inspired to internalize more wholesome and rewarding pursuits." I would personally like to believe that most women who shop do have other interests as well, but even if they don't, I feel that Mr Boteach will probably have his work cut out implementing this one.

    If you are the sort of woman who likes the idea of being put on a pedestal and worshipped then you will probably enjoy this book. If, however, you find the idea of being responsible for civilising the male of the species too daunting a task, and would rather not have to undertake this endevour, or if you even believe that some men at least are capable of acting in a civilised manner without being trained by the superior female, you may find it too much to swallow.
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  • gtSasha
    4.0 out of 5 stars this is an excellent read for anyone who wants to learn more about ...
    Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2014
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    Very interesting and informative critique of the role and treatment of women in modern society. Although the author explores well known problems faced by women, he manages to view them from a different angle and hence provide interesting insights. As a man, this book forced me to take a closer look at my own views and opinions.

    Unfortunately, when it comes to prescriptions, the author still falls back onto the old conservative recipes. In fact, some of his suggestions seem to come from late 1800s and contradict the rest of the book written from a surprisingly modern, even feminist perspective (author is an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi).

    Nonetheless, this is an excellent read for anyone who wants to learn more about women.
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  • hannah
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read
    Reviewed in Canada on February 3, 2015
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    This book was great, all the thoughts that u had being a women in a modern society were put in to this book I swear! It makes so much sense, and has great, fantastic points, I can't believe how women are becoming these days and the potential for women is only worse and worse as we see more low life whore models for our children to be influenced by. MUST READ
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  • Bronwen Grey
    2.0 out of 5 stars Highly repetitious
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 24, 2013
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    The writer's premise is that women are inherently morally superior to men and that, instead of encouraging women to embrace and uphold traditional female values whilst taking advantage of their new freedoms, the third wave of feminism presided over them leaping like lemmings from their pedestals, merely to imitate men, i.e to be coarse, vulgar, violent and self-interested. Not only has society suffered from the erosion of feminine refinement, he argues, but it has enabled women to be showcased, denigrated and enslaved by the advertising and pornography industries, i.e. what you win on the swings you lose on the roundabouts. I don't disagree with this idea but unfortunately it is never developed substantially and the book degenerates into tedious repetition. An infinitely better work is Naomi Woolf's `The Beauty Myth'.
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