Book description
Does sexism against men exist? What it looks like and why we need to
take it seriously
This book draws attention to the "second sexism," where it
exists, how it works and what it looks like, and responds to those who
would deny that it exists. Challenging conventional ways of thinking,
it examines controversial issues such as sex-based affirmative action,
gender roles, and charges of anti-feminism. The book offers an
academically rigorous argument in an accessible style, including the
careful use of empirical data, and includes examples and engages in a
discussion of how sex discrimination against men and boys also
undermines the cause for female equality.
David Benatar is Professor of Philosophy at the University of
Cape Town. He is the author of Better Never to Have Been: The Harm
of Coming into Existence (2006).
