The Second Sexism Discrimination Against Men and Boys
by Benatar, DavidEdition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2012-05-07
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
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 Challenges conventional ways of thinking Offers an academically rigorous argument in an accessible style, including the careful use of empirical data Includes examples and engages in a discussion of how sex discrimination against men and boys also undermines the cause for female equality Examines controversial issues such as sex-based affirmative action, gender roles, and charges of anti-feminism
Author Biography
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).
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. x |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| What Is the Second Sexism? | p. 1 |
| Disadvantage | p. 2 |
| Discrimination | p. 3 |
| Wrongful discrimination | p. 3 |
| Sexism | p. 5 |
| The First Sexism | p. 12 |
| Two Kinds of Denialist | p. 13 |
| Forestalling Some Fallacies | p. 16 |
| Structure and Method of the Book | p. 18 |
| Male Disadvantage | p. 25 |
| Conscription and Combat | p. 26 |
| Violence | p. 30 |
| Corporal Punishment | p. 33 |
| Sexual Assault | p. 36 |
| Circumcision | p. 41 |
| Education | p. 46 |
| Family and Other Relationships | p. 50 |
| Custody | p. 50 |
| Paternity | p. 51 |
| Paternity leave | p. 53 |
| Homosexuals | p. 54 |
| Bodily Privacy | p. 54 |
| Life Expectancy | p. 57 |
| Imprisonment and Capital Punishment | p. 59 |
| Conclusion | p. 61 |
| Explaining Male Disadvantage and Thinking about Sex Differences | p. 77 |
| Beliefs about Males | p. 77 |
| Questions about the Beliefs | p. 84 |
| To what extent, if at all, are the beliefs true? | p. 85 |
| What makes the beliefs true? | p. 89 |
| What, if any, implications are there? | p. 93 |
| Conclusion | p. 96 |
| From Disadvantage to Wrongful Discrimination | p. 101 |
| Conscription and Combat | p. 102 |
| Kingsley Browne's basic argument | p. 103 |
| "Slippage" | p. 104 |
| Military effectiveness | p. 106 |
| Dangers of conservatism | p. 109 |
| Statistical differences | p. 113 |
| Final thoughts on combat and conscription | p. 121 |
| Violence | p. 122 |
| "The perpetrators are men" | p. 123 |
| "Men are better able to defend themselves" | p. 124 |
| "Men pose a greater threat" | p. 125 |
| Two kinds of discrimination | p. 127 |
| Corporal Punishment | p. 128 |
| "Males are more badly behaved" | p. 128 |
| "Corporal punishment is not as damaging to males" | p. 129 |
| Sexual Assault | p. 132 |
| Circumcision | p. 134 |
| Education | p. 135 |
| Family and Other Relationships | p. 137 |
| Bodily Privacy | p. 142 |
| "Women have a greater interest in bodily privacy than do men" | p. 143 |
| "The conditions are different" | p. 145 |
| Equal employment opportunity | p. 148 |
| Life Expectancy | p. 152 |
| Imprisonment and Capital Punishment | p. 155 |
| Conclusion | p. 163 |
| Responding to Objections | p. 173 |
| The Inversion Argument | p. 174 |
| Conscription and combat | p. 175 |
| Violence | p. 179 |
| Circumcision | p. 182 |
| Education | p. 183 |
| Sexual assault | p. 185 |
| Bodily privacy | p. 186 |
| Custody | p. 188 |
| Life expectancy | p. 189 |
| Imprisonment | p. 193 |
| The Costs-of-Dominance Argument | p. 194 |
| The Distraction Argument | p. 199 |
| Defining Discrimination | p. 202 |
| Affirmative Action | p. 212 |
| Rectifying Injustice | p. 215 |
| The past discrimination argument | p. 216 |
| The present discrimination argument | p. 218 |
| Lessons from "Summers School" | p. 225 |
| Consequentialist Arguments | p. 228 |
| The viewpoint diversity argument | p. 228 |
| The role-model argument | p. 229 |
| The legitimate-sex-preference argument | p. 231 |
| The ideal argument | p. 232 |
| Conclusion | p. 233 |
| Conclusion | p. 239 |
| Does Feminism Discriminate against Men? | p. 239 |
| Are Men Worse off than Women? | p. 246 |
| Taking the Second Sexism Seriously | p. 254 |
| Conclusion | p. 259 |
| Bibliography | p. 266 |
| Index | p. 285 |
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