Ceasefire!: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality
- List Price: $25.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Free Press
- Publish date: 01/01/2005
Because women were historically denied their basic human rights, Young argues, women today elicit greater sympathy than men do, giving rise to a harmful "group consciousness" among women -- and an unspoken assumption that their interests and problems are more legitimate and important. By shifting the focus of the women's movement from equal rights to special protection for women, feminists have fostered a sense of grievance, fear, and outrage that has done incalculable social harm.
Young challenges the assumption that fundamental differences between the sexes are unbridgeable, and proposes a return to common interests and humanity -- the basis for all social life, and the only way out of the increasingly shrill and destructive gender war.
