Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys, Edition 2

Kay S Hymowitz

Mar 2012 · Sold by Basic Books

About this ebook

In Manning Up, Manhattan Institute fellow and City Journal contributing editor Kay Hymowitz argues that the gains of the feminist revolution have had a dramatic, unanticipated effect on the current generation of young men. Traditional roles of family man and provider have been turned upside down as "pre-adult" men, stuck between adolescence and "real" adulthood, find themselves lost in a world where women make more money, are more educated, and are less likely to want to settle down and build a family. Their old scripts are gone, and young men find themselves adrift. Unlike women, they have no biological clock telling them it's time to grow up. Hymowitz argues that it's time for these young men to "man up."

Ratings and reviews

A Dentist wouldn't (and shoudn't) prescribe medication for depression or hypertension. Hymowitz scope is limited because she lacks insight that a Psychologist, Sociologist, or Anthropologist has in understanding human behavior. "Manning Up" doesn't give women any advantage. We would return to a time where women are dependent of men and subject to abuse (both financially and physically). My wife is my best friend and partner not my property.

If women have biological clock to tell them to grow up then why are so many of these so called women total self entitled man children? Worst statement ever. 1 star.

About the author

Kay S. Hymowitz is the William E. Simon Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. She also writes for many major publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the New Republic. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.