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Does Feminism Discriminate against Men? A Debate. By Warren Farrell (with Steven Svoboda) and James P. Sterba. Oxford University Press. 272pp, Pounds 21.99 and Pounds 9.99. ISBN 9780195312829 and 12836. Published 24 April 2008.
It is tempting to dismiss this volume as part of the well-documented backlash against feminism, but that would be unfair to James Sterba, who argues that feminism has rightly challenged the various forms of discrimination that women face.
But of course this very comment appears to demonstrate the kind of prejudice that his co-author Warren Farrell outlines. In order, therefore, to allow that Farrell might have something to say, we are drawn into considering an argument that suggests that in all sorts of ways - for example, promotion in the US military and unequal (that is to say favourable to women) treatment in law - women are...