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  • How Modern Feminism Lost Touch with Science, Love, and Common Sense
  • By: Mona Charen
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  • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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Summary

Author of the New York Times best seller Useful Idiots and popular columnist Mona Charen takes a close, reasoned look at the aggressive feminist agenda undermining the success and happiness of men and women across the country.

In this smart, deeply necessary critique, Mona Charen unpacks the ways feminism fails us at home, in the workplace, and in our personal relationships - by promising that we can have it all, do it all, and be it all. Here, she upends the feminist agenda and the liberal conversation surrounding women's issues by asking tough and crucial questions, such as:  

  • Did women's full equality require the total destruction of the nuclear family? 
  • Did it require a sexual revolution that would dismantle traditions of modesty, courtship, and fidelity that had characterized relations between the sexes for centuries? 
  • Did it cause the broken dating culture and the rape crisis on our college campuses? 
  • Did it require war between the sexes that would deem men the "enemy" of women?
  • Have the strides of feminism made women happier in their home and work life. (The answer is no.)  

Sex Matters tracks the price we have paid for denying sex differences and stoking the war of the sexes - family breakdown, declining female happiness, aimlessness among men, and increasing inequality. Marshaling copious social science research as well as her own experience as a professional as well as a wife and mother, Mona Charen calls for a sexual ceasefire for the sake of women, men, and children.

©2018 Mona Charen (P)2018 Random House Audio

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"Mona Charen has written a book that matters. Honest, fearless, and insightful, it's a polemic that's more than a polemic. It's a thought-provoking attempt to induce those willing to liberate themselves from contemporary pieties to think anew about the family, about equality, and about the nature of men and women." (William Kristol, editor at large, The Weekly Standard)

“An honest book on a crucial subject by a wonderful writer. Her book will be widely praised and widely attacked. Even the attackers, somewhere within themselves, will know it’s true. This is a book that deals in reality.” (Jay Nordlinger, senior editor, National Review)

Sex Matters is a cultural milestone. Mona Charen dissolves decades of fallacies in the acid of honesty. I found this book thrilling.” (George Gilder, author of Life After Google and Men and Marriage)

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Beautiful

I am not a Feminist. We are all equal and different. Beautifully researched & written...

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A book any feminist should listen to

You can disagree with her opinion, but you can't say this is not a well researched and we'll written book. I think any feminist should read this, if they want to call themselves open minded and well documented. Even though I don't really agree with a big part of the considerations made in this book, I can say I learned a lot and that now I am a more open minded and informed feminist. Too often people read books, follow people on social media or watch youtube videos, just to listen to someone that share their same ideas. They end up learning nothing new, almost as their real goal was just telling themselves "i am so well informed, i already knew all of this. i am so smart and so good". Well, i think we grow way more listening to people we disagree with and continuously challenging our ideas. So, if you are a feminist listen to this book. If you aren't, keep scrolling :)

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Please give this book to every liberal you know

A thoughtful, eminently researched, humane, and devastating critique of how extremist feminism has become mainstream. Charen dissects and demolishes the misinformation and ideological groupthink that has turned feminism into a movement that damages both men and women. This book will make you think about the direction of western civilisation in a very different way. Highly recommended.

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