Is there anything good about men?: how cultures flourish by exploiting men

Have men really been engaged in a centuries-old conspiracy to exploit and oppress women? Have the essential differences between men and women really been erased? Have men now become unnecessary? Are they good for anything at all? In Is There Anything Good About Men?, Roy Baumeister offers provocative answers to these and many other questions about the current state of manhood in America. Baumeister argues that relations between men and women are now and have always been more cooperative than antagonistic, that men and women are different in basic ways, and that successful cultures capitalize o

Have men really been engaged in a centuries-old conspiracy to exploit and oppress women? Have the essential differences between men and women really been erased? Have men now become unnecessary? Are they good for anything at all? In Is There Anything Good About Men?, Roy Baumeister offers provocative answers to these and many other questions about the current state of manhood in America. Baumeister argues that relations between men and women are now and have always been more cooperative than antagonistic, that men and women are different in basic ways, and that successful cultures capitalize o

An odd, unseasonal question -- Are women better than men, or vice versa? -- Can't or wont? Where the real differences are found -- The most underappreciated fact about men -- Are women more social? -- How culture works -- Women, men, and culture : the roots of inequality -- Expendable beings, disposable lives -- Earning manhood, and the male ego -- Exploiting men through marriage and sex -- What else, what next?