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  • How Modern Feminism Lost Touch with Science, Love, and Common Sense
  • Written by: Mona Charen
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  • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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Author of the New York Times best seller Useful Idiots and popular columnist Mona Charen takes a close, reasoned look at the aggressive feminist agenda undermining the success and happiness of men and women across the country.

In this smart, deeply necessary critique, Mona Charen unpacks the ways feminism fails us at home, in the workplace, and in our personal relationships - by promising that we can have it all, do it all, and be it all. Here, she upends the feminist agenda and the liberal conversation surrounding women's issues by asking tough and crucial questions, such as:  

  • Did women's full equality require the total destruction of the nuclear family? 
  • Did it require a sexual revolution that would dismantle traditions of modesty, courtship, and fidelity that had characterized relations between the sexes for centuries? 
  • Did it cause the broken dating culture and the rape crisis on our college campuses? 
  • Did it require war between the sexes that would deem men the "enemy" of women?
  • Have the strides of feminism made women happier in their home and work life. (The answer is no.)  

Sex Matters tracks the price we have paid for denying sex differences and stoking the war of the sexes - family breakdown, declining female happiness, aimlessness among men, and increasing inequality. Marshaling copious social science research as well as her own experience as a professional as well as a wife and mother, Mona Charen calls for a sexual ceasefire for the sake of women, men, and children.

©2018 Mona Charen (P)2018 Random House Audio

What the critics say

"Mona Charen has written a book that matters. Honest, fearless, and insightful, it's a polemic that's more than a polemic. It's a thought-provoking attempt to induce those willing to liberate themselves from contemporary pieties to think anew about the family, about equality, and about the nature of men and women." (William Kristol, editor at large, The Weekly Standard)

“An honest book on a crucial subject by a wonderful writer. Her book will be widely praised and widely attacked. Even the attackers, somewhere within themselves, will know it’s true. This is a book that deals in reality.” (Jay Nordlinger, senior editor, National Review)

Sex Matters is a cultural milestone. Mona Charen dissolves decades of fallacies in the acid of honesty. I found this book thrilling.” (George Gilder, author of Life After Google and Men and Marriage)

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Moderation the best method for everything

Good although not always fair analysis of women’s position in contemporary society.
Author very critical of feminism seems to forget that without it she might’ve had difficulty to express her opinion altogether.

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A Worthy Read

I would classify myself as a feminist, and still do after reading this book. My education was deeply rooted on feminist theory, and have studied all the greats.
Mona did an excellent job at highlighting how genders compliment each other, rather than compete for hierarchy. We are at a loss for direction in today’s world and this book points to why.

I didn’t want it to end, and am thankful a bold, yet artfully crafted book exists.

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