Women, Men, and the Whole Damn Thing

Feminism, Misogyny, and Where We Go From Here

David Leser

• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781643136295
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Feminism & Feminist Theory
• Index: Social Sciences

A brilliant, impassioned, unflinching account of the firestorm of #MeToo, how we got there, and where we must now go. In Women, Men, and the Whole Damn Thing, author David Leser presents an essential and incisive investigation, unearthing the roots of misogyny, its inextricable links to the patriarchy, and how history brought us to the #MeToo movement and the wave of incandescent female rage that is sweeping the world. Crucially, he also interrogates his own psyche, privilege, and culpability as he bears witness to the "collective wound of the world" and asks how we can move towards healing and profound and permanent change. This book calls on men (yes, all men) to be accountable for their contribution to the continuing oppression of women by the patriarchal structures that have dominated our culture historically and through to the present. He argues that misogyny and female oppression is the greatest moral issue of our times and we are all responsible for dismantling the structures which cause such oppression. This book is his journey into how to grapple with both the personal and collective aftermath of #MeToo and the new future. Including interviews with Tina Brown, Zainab Salbi, MarleneSchiappa, and Helen Garner, among other globally recognized names, Women, Men, and the Whole Damn Thing is a bold, honest, and self-searching global overview of the cultural moment of misogyny that we exist in and, perhaps, a way to move forward.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Of all the wild animals
• Chapter 2: Desire and hatred
• Chapter 3: When God was a woman
• Chapter 4: Sex, lies and videotape
• Chapter 5: Not okay? Me too
• Chapter 6: The hunting ground
• Chapter 7: La grande cause
• Chapter 8: Here, there and everywhere
• Chapter 9: Augustine confessions
• Chapter 10: The man box
• Chapter 11: Hammer blows
• Chapter 12: Brick by hurtful brick
• Chapter 13: In the shadows of Saddam
• Chapter 14: The grey zone
• Chapter 15: Tabula rasa
• Chapter 16: Vigilante justice
• Chapter 17: Voyage around my father
• Chapter 18: India’s daughter
• Chapter 19: Tenderly, gently
• Acknowledgements
• About the Author
• References
• Index
• Copyright