January 11, 2013

Books

Second-Class Male

The End of MenAnd the Rise of WomenHanna RosinRiverhead, $27.95, 320 pp.

Margaret O'Brien Steinfels

Fifty years of feminism have dramatically altered women’s lives and their prospects for education and careers. No surprise, then, that the other half of the equation—men’s lives—has shifted. We can see that gender roles aren’t what they used to be. But how have they changed? In her new book The End of Men: And the Rise of Women, Hanna Rosin argues that women have mana (...)


 

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