Gender studies, gender groups Books

Book SynopsisThis book explores the impact of ''race'', class and gender on the interaction of pupils and their teachers in the classroom setting. It seeks to examine the extent to which these variables can account for differential rates of school exclusion between pupils from different ethnic/racial groups, socio-economic classes and genders.Table of ContentsSeries Editor Preface 1. Theoretical Overview 2. School Ethos and the 'Value' of Exclusion 3. Teachers and Pupils - Relationships of Power and Resistance 4. Interrelations of 'Race' and Gender in School 5. Gendering 'Race' 6. 'Race' and the Social Consequences of Exclusion 7. Future Prospects - Towards Inclusive Education for All

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Book SynopsisPrison is unquestionably one of the most sex-segregated of all social institutions. From the first incarnations of the carceral project more than two centuries ago, reformers and penologists earnestly turned their attention to the construction of ''Christian gentlemen'' and ''respectable ladies''. Vestiges of these projects remain to the present day, though often in radically different forms. Academic work exploring the construction of prison related gender has been a relatively recent development within the last quarter century. Included in this volume are twenty-two key articles exploring prison history, the state and gendered social control, gender and work in prisons and the gendered experience of incarceration. The introductory essay places these areas in the context both of more conventional sociologies of gender (highlighting both masculinities and femininities) and traditional scholarship on the prison, arguing for a return of this increasingly important social institution froTable of ContentsContents: Series preface; Introduction. Gender and Prison History: Penitence for the privileged: manhood, race and penitentiaries in early America, Mark E. Kann; Race, gender and prison history: from the convict lease system to the supermax prison, Angela Y. Davis; 'One female prisoner is of more trouble than 20 males': women convicts in Illinois prisons, 1835-1896, L. Mara Dodge; Wretched, hatless and miserably clad: women and the inebriate reformatories from 1900-1913, G. Hunt, J. Mellor and J. Turner; Following the rules? Women's responses to incarceration, New Zealand, 1880-1920, Bronwyn Dalley; Situating sex: prison sexual culture in the mid-20th century United States, Regina G. Kunzel; A brief history of doing time: the California Institution for Women in the 1960s and the 1990s, Rosemary Gartner and Candace Kruttschnitt. Gender, the State and Regimes of Control: Prisons that empower: neo-liberal governance in Canadian women's prisons, Kelly Hannah-Moffat; Homeboys, babies, men in suits: the State and the reproduction of male dominance, Lynne Haney; Embodied surveillance and the gendering of punishment, Jill A. McCorkel ; Gender theory and prison sociology: using theories of masculinities to interpret the sociology of prisons for men, Carolyn Newton. Gender and Work in Prison: Gendered organizational logic: policy and practice in men's and women's prisons, Dana M. Britton; Women doing a man's job: female prison officers working in a male prison, Louise Farnsworth ; A man's world: gender issues in working with male sex offenders in prison, Malcolm Cowburn; Cat fights and gang fights: preference for work in a male-dominated organization, Dana M. Britton. Gender and the Experience of Incarceration: Doing her own time? Women's responses to prison in the context of the old and the new penology, Candace Kruttschnitt, Rosemary Gartner and Amy Miller; Tougher than the rest? Men in prison, Joe Sim; Re/constructing black masculinity in prison, M. Nandi; Resistance

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Book SynopsisA tour de force of scholarship and major contribution to the history of thought concerning the nature of personal identity, Internarrative Identity: Placing the Self asks how identity is created and examines the history of conceptions of the self, from Aristotle to Postmodernism, to find the answers. Ultimately, Maan discovers that the human capacity for self-creation exists in what have previously been problematic areas of experienceconflict, marginalization, disruption, exclusion, subversion, deviation and contradiction.Trade ReviewInternarrative Identity confronts us with deep questions about personal identity and about how we are to trace the significance of a person's life . . . urges us to rethink the range of ways available to us for making sense of who we are and how we ought to live. -- Mark Johnson, author of Metaphors We Live By and Philosophy in the FleshTable of ContentsChapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Acknowledgments Chapter 4 Introduction Chapter 5 Chapter I: Narrative Identity Chapter 6 Chapter II: Fault Lines Chapter 7 Chapter III: Comparative Analysis Chapter 8 Chapter IV: Internarrative Identity Chapter 9 Chapter V: Repression and Narrative Unity Chapter 10 Notes Chapter 11 Bibliography Chapter 12 Index Chapter 13 About the Author

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Book SynopsisThe state of Yucatan is commonly considered to have been a hotbed of radical feminism during the Mexican Revolution. Challenging this romanticized view, this book examines the revolutionary reforms designed to break women's ties to tradition and religion, as well as the ways in which women shaped these developments.

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Book SynopsisShows the social world of inner city African American girls and how they manage threats of personal violence. This title presents an account of how African American girls negotiate schools and neighborhoods governed by the so-called 'code of the street' - the form of street justice that governs violence in distressed urban areas.Trade Review"This book adds invaluable information and analysis to the growing debate on the violence perpetrated by girls, and the ethnographic method is exactly what is needed to further the question of whether today's girls—particularly those most marginalized due to class, race, and neighborhood—are more violent." -- Joanne Belknap * author of The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime & Justice *"Between Good and Ghetto is an expertly written and fascinating ethnography of the gendered racial dimensions of violence in the inner city. Jones does an excellent job in communicating the strength and sensitivity [of the girls she interviewed] to her readers while, simultaneously, producing a work of tremendous insight and immense sociological imagination." * Contemporary Sociology *"A very compelling account of daily life as experienced by poor, urban, African American adolescent girls. Recommended." * Choice *"Nikki Jones' sharp, detailed investigation of the way fighting, on the street and in school, shapes the lives of young African American women combines shrewd analytical insight and clear evocative language to give readers an understanding of what it costs a 'good girl' to stay good, and what happens to those who 'go for bad.'" -- Howard S. Becker * author of Outsiders and Writing for Social Scientists *"The young women in Between Good and Ghetto compel the reader to consider their lives and the violence they experience in relation to the shifting and dynamic concept of protection. What is perhaps the most significant and disturbing revelation in the book is that there are few contexts, behavioral strategies, institutional spaces, or ways of identifying that fully protect young inner-city African American women's physical well-being, emotional health, and empowered self-perception." * Signs *"Intellectually and emotionally evocative. Jones’s [book] is hard to put down due to her adept use of imagery and obvious passion for her work." * Feminist Formations *"This book adds invaluable information and analysis to the growing debate on the violence perpetrated by girls, and the ethnographic method is exactly what is needed to further the question of whether today's girls—particularly those most marginalized due to class, race, and neighborhood—are more violent." -- Joanne Belknap * author of The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime & Justice *"Between Good and Ghetto is an expertly written and fascinating ethnography of the gendered racial dimensions of violence in the inner city. Jones does an excellent job in communicating the strength and sensitivity [of the girls she interviewed] to her readers while, simultaneously, producing a work of tremendous insight and immense sociological imagination." * Contemporary Sociology *"A very compelling account of daily life as experienced by poor, urban, African American adolescent girls. Recommended." * Choice *"Nikki Jones' sharp, detailed investigation of the way fighting, on the street and in school, shapes the lives of young African American women combines shrewd analytical insight and clear evocative language to give readers an understanding of what it costs a 'good girl' to stay good, and what happens to those who 'go for bad.'" -- Howard S. Becker * author of Outsiders and Writing for Social Scientists *"The young women in Between Good and Ghetto compel the reader to consider their lives and the violence they experience in relation to the shifting and dynamic concept of protection. What is perhaps the most significant and disturbing revelation in the book is that there are few contexts, behavioral strategies, institutional spaces, or ways of identifying that fully protect young inner-city African American women's physical well-being, emotional health, and empowered self-perception." * Signs *"Intellectually and emotionally evocative. Jones’s [book] is hard to put down due to her adept use of imagery and obvious passion for her work." * Feminist Formations *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 The Social World of Inner City Girls 2 "It's Not Where You Live, It's How You Live" 3 "Ain't I A Violent Person?" 4 "Love Make You Fight Crazy" Conclusion: The Other Side of the Crisis Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRecognizing that both metaphoric and inclusive language are necessary in Christian worship, this book clarifies how these need not be contradictory criteria for forming liturgical language.Trade ReviewRamshaw makes an excellent contribution to the discussion on liturgical language with this efficiently packed essay.Modern LiturgyRamshaw's brief work points out some directions liturgists can take in this new millennium.Philippiniana Sacra

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Book SynopsisWomen in the Gospel of LukeTrade ReviewThis is a solid and well-written book, one that offers a host of enticing leads for preaching and teaching.The Bible TodayMore important even than the fresh interpretations of texts on women in the Gospel of Luke are Reid's methodological precision and the care with which she accompanies readers on the journey into and through these texts. In addition to offering rich background material and meticulous textual analysis, she describes the benefits and pitfalls of various reading strategies that will allow a liberating voice the 'better part' to be heard through, beneath, or even against Luke's words. This book is an essential resource for the classroom, Bible study group, and preacher's library alike.Sharon H. Ringe, Wesley Theological SeminaryThe frequent discussions of interpretive possibilities for contemporary women make this a very useful guide to the Gospel as a whole and in its individual passages for all who try to integrate the message of Jesus into their lives.Carolyn Osiek, RSCJ, Catholic Theological Union

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Book SynopsisRecent years have seen enormous attention devoted to the history of sexuality in the Western world. But how has the West conceived of non-western societies been influenced by these other traditions? The Geography of Perversion and Desire is the first historical study to demonstrate convincingly that the representation cultural otherness, as found in European thought from the Enlightenment through modern times, is closely interrelated with modern constructions of homosexual identity. Travel reports and early ethnographic accounts of cross-gender roles in the Americas, Africa, and Asia corroborated the 18th century construction of the sodomite identity. Similarly, the late 19th-century construction of the third sex provoked much anthropological speculation on to genetic versus societal nature of male-to-male sexual relations, a precursor of current essentialist versus constructionist debates. An invaluable contribution to the ongoing debates on cultural and sexual otherness, this volumeTrade Review"Brave and fascinating, as well as important ... A scholarly and comprehensive contribution to our growing knowledge of the history of homosexuality." -Jeffrey Weeks

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Book SynopsisThe main theme of this text is the importance of gender to mainstream history and, specifically, to the major themes of 19th century European history, such as nationalism, liberalism and socialism.

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Book SynopsisIf Western philosophy has claimed to be a love of wisdom, it has forgotten to become a wisdom of love. Asking the question: How can we love each other? Irigaray presents an exploration of desire and the human heart.Trade Review'Irigaray's work is always dazzling, surprising and unexpected. No other thinker of Irigaray's generation has her range, insight and originality. No other thinker has managed to illuminate the challenge and the mystery that the other, the other of sexual difference, brings to all encounters, and to all knowledges. In The Way of Love Irigaray opens up philosophy to the mystery of sexual difference, a mystery inscribed in but covered over in all of Western thought.' Elizabeth GroszTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction; 2. The Sharing of the Word; 3. Being With the Other; 4. Thanks to Difference; 5. Rebuilding the World

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Book SynopsisWritten by a leading activist in the transgender movement, this is an enquiry into the politics of gender. Jamison Green combines candid autobiography with informed analysis to offer unique insight into the multiple challenges of the female-to-male transsexual experience.

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Book SynopsisRuth Barnes Ashmolean Museum,Oxford Joanne B. Eicher Regents' Professor, Department of Design, Housing and Apparel, University of MinnesotaTrade Review'...this important, thought-provoking work, breaks new ground and could conceivably spawn future Women's Studies research in many lands and languages.'Dress...a rich and diverse collection of essays, with a wide ethnographic and historical range that makes it a valuable and useful book for those interested in either dress or gender, and indispensable for those interested in both.Journal of the Anthropological Society of OxfordThis excellent volume should serve as a useful resource.Choice'... an extremely rich analysis of dress as a form of gender identification.'ITAA NewsletterTable of ContentsR. Barnes and J. Eicher, Introduction - J. Eicher and N.E. Roach-Higgins, Dress and Gender: Definition and Classification of Dress: Implications for Analysis of Gender Roles - R. Barnes, Women as Headhunters: The Making and Meaning of Textiles in a Southeast Asian Context - L. Lefferts, Cut and Sewn: The Textiles of Social Organisation in Thailand - D. Geirnaert, Purse-Proud: Of Betel and Areca Nut Bags in Laboya (West Sumba, Eastern Indonesia) - C. Pancake, Gender Boundaries in the Production of Guatamalan Textiles - S. Baizerman, The Jewish Kippa Sruga and the Social Construction of Gender in Israel - C. Cerny, Quilted Apparel and Gender Identity: An American Case Study - L. Sciama, Lace Making in Venetian Culture - P. Dransart, Pachamama: The Inka Earth Mother of the Long Sweeping Garment - S. Michelman and T. Erekosima, Kalabari Dress in Nigeria: visual Analysis and Gender Implications - L. Cort, Whose Sleeves? Gender, Class, and Meaning in Japanese Dress of the Seventeenth Century - J. Leslie, The Significance of Dress for the Orthodox Hindu Woman - O.P. Joshi, Continuity and Change in Hindu Women's Dress - H. Callaway, Dressing for Dinner in the Bush: Rituals of Self-Definition and British Imperial Authority - R. Bailey, Clothes Encounters of the Gynecological Kind: Medical Mandates and Maternity Modes USA, 1850-1990 - M. Young, Dress and Modes of Address: Structural Forms for Policewomen

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Book SynopsisSarah Baker is Lecturer in Culture and Context at the School of Design, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She has researched and published numerous articles focussed on consumption and domestic space.Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. The Definitions and Distinctions of Retro Style 3. Retro Style and the Cultural Politics of Everyday Life 4. A History of the Retro Aesthetic 5. Retailing Retro 6. Retro Interiors and Lifestyle Media 7. Retro Homes, Taste and Cultural Distinction 8. Retro Femininities and Domestic Labour 9. Conclusion Appendix References Index

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1994. This volume contains the proceedings of a historic meeting, attended by over 2,000 mental health professionals and lay people, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Centre in New York City. Each contributor to this book offers unique insight into the seminal work of Karen Horney, one of the first psychoanalysts to question Freud''s male-centred theories and clinical practices.; The book includes accounts of the formative girlhood experiences that awakened Horney''s spirit of independence and the intellectual and cultural currents of her time that influenced her work. A contribution by a Preeminent Sex Therapist Challenges The Notion That Liberated Women threaten the potency of men. Other contributors define the characteristics of relationships that foster or hinder women''s psychological growth and discuss the conflicts faced by adolescent girls as they become aware of gender differences.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Milton M. Berger; Part 1 Women Beyond Freud; Chapter 1 Awakened to Life, Susan Quinn; Chapter 2 Karen Horney's Feminine Psychology and the Passions of Her Time, Marianne Horney Eckardt; Chapter 3 Discussion of the Papers by Susan Quinn and Marianne Horney Eckardt, Douglas H. Ingram; Chapter 4 The Myth of the New Impotence, Helen Singer Kaplan; Chapter 5 Discussion of the Paper by Helen Singer Kaplan, Harold I. Lief; Chapter 6 Women's Psychological Development, Jean Baker Miller; Chapter 7 Joining the Resistance, Carol Gilligan; Chapter 8 Discussion of the Papers by Jean Baker Miller and Carol Gilligan, Silvia W. Olarte; Chapter 9 Discussion of the Papers by Jean Baker Miller and Carol Gilligan, Mario Rendon; epilogue Epilogue, MILTON M. BERGER;

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Book SynopsisGender and Vote in Britain provides comprehensive analysis of the 1992-2005 British general elections and tests whether there were, in fact, sex differences in leadership evaluations, party of vote and political attitudes.

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Book SynopsisForty-five years after women's liberationists first demanded equality, feminism is now so universally accepted that few people dare question it. However, this book does just that. It shows how this angry creed has divided society along the fault line of gender, and warns of a coming backlash from men.Trade ReviewOver the past 30+ years the developed world has progressively surrendered to an evil ideology, feminism, a gender supremacy ideology driven by misandry (the hatred of men). In the United Kingdom, as in many other developed countries, feminists have long been highly influential in governments of all political hues, in state institutions, and in the mainstream media. Following the 2015 general election David Cameron became prime minister at the head of a majority Conservative government. Among his first actions on returning to office was to re-appoint the Minister of Women and Equalities to the cabinet, and he gave a third of ministerial positions to women, although only one in five Conservative MPs are women; Feminists' manipulations of the government and state institutions demonstrably lead to ever poorer life outcomes for men and boys, yet the mainstream media fails to report their activities, or expose them as egregious liars with respect to issues such as sexual offences, domestic violence, the gender pay gap, and many more. As the state broadcaster the BBC is predictably uncritical of feminists, and regularly gives them major platforms, while denying them to anti-feminists;Anyone wishing to understand the history of feminism, and how feminists have managed to exert such influence, faces a Herculean task. Commercial publishers have been unwilling to publish titles which are critical of feminism, with few exceptions. A person can turn to the internet for enlightenment, but the challenge will prove a lengthy and frustrating one. A person may track down numerous pieces of the 'jigsaw', but will struggle to see the big picture;Public awareness that feminism is an evil ideology, one that leads to so many poor outcomes for society, is inexorably on the rise. Awareness that men's issues exist, and are important, is also on the rise. In 2014, for example, the people behind the influential (American) website A Voice for Men organized the world's first international conference on men's issues.Feminism is Marxism in action, and no books have been published which comprehensively explore its history from the emergence of Marxism to the present day. No book has been published with biographies of the key figures in feminism, or with an in-depth analysis of the absurd feminist 'patriarchy theory'. No book has dealt with the psychological and social origins of feminism, how feminism has become deeply embedded in state institutions, and debunking feminist myths about rape, domestic violence, the gender pay gap, and so many others. And finally, no book has outlined in detail how feminism's attack on the nuclear family has led to appalling social outcomes.With Their Angry Creed, all that has changed. Herbert Purdy is a renowned British anti-feminist blogger, and anyone familiar with his output won't be surprised at the depth and breadth of his book. The book is lengthy, but it has to be, to cover so much ground comprehensively.One day a book will be published on the subject of feminism, which will become an international bestseller. I believe Their Angry Creed could be that book. It certainly deserves to be;Mike Buchanan;PARTY LEADER;Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them)Table of ContentsCHAPTER 1: Revolution!; Plotting, Sexual politics, 'Town Bloody Hall', The Swinging Sixties, A privileged generation, 'Never had it so good', Sexual revolution, Abortion and the 'Magic Pill'. Economic revolution. Social revolution. Political opportunism. CHAPTER 2: An Angry Generation; Infiltration. Double tragedy. The 'Angries'. Feminism's ground zero. Pied pipers. CHAPTER 3: Making the Personal Political; Andrea Dworkin. Valerie Solanas. Shulamith Firestone. Detachment from reality. Jaqueline Ceballos. Germaine Greer. Juliet Mitchell. Betty Friedan. Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst. Making the personal political. Liberation: from men. Role models. CHAPTER 4: Feminism; Feminism 101. Simone de Beauvoir. Confused logic. Objectification. Hegemony. 'Her-story'. Sisterly solidarity. Fairness feminism. The real feminism?. CHAPTER 5: On Patriarchy; The Social Origins of Patriarchy. The Social Origins of Patriarchy. Sons of... Biblical concept. Patriarchy in antiquity. Early Christian evidence. Moving tableaux. The Evolution of Patriarchy. The Evolution of Patriarchy. Couverture. Feudalism to modernity. Universal enfranchisement. The Suffragettes. Patriarchy As Fatherliness. The rule of the father. Weber on patrimonialism. The 'Big Lie'. Fathers and feminism. Patriarchy Today. Real patriarchy. The politics of patriarchy. Is patriarchy a bad thing?. Figment of a febrile feminist imagination. CHAPTER 6: Marxism and 'The Woman Question'; The Marxist basis of feminism. Lewis Henry Morgan. 'Big Men' and patriarchy. An argument from Ignorance. Charles Fourier. August Bebel. Ernest Belfort Bax. Eric Fromm and the Frankfurt School. Progress or regress?. CHAPTER 7: The Psycho-Social Aspects of Feminism; Feminism's fury. Rejection of criticism. Mind games. Groupthink. Symbolic Convergence Theory. The retreat of reason. Political correctness. Games feminists play. A martyr for the cause?. Her-story is really hysteria. CHAPTER 8: Institutionalised Feminism; Domestic politics. New Labour. 'Social-ism'. The nationalisation of childhood. Entryism. PC legislation. Press & broadcast media. European Union. The Church of England. CHAPTER 9: The Social Outcomes of Feminism; Lads and ladettes. The divorce revolution. 'Losing the plot'. Children: the true victims of feminism. Political prudery. Legalised subjection of men. Inequality of sentencing. Who is John Galt?. Has feminism liberated men?. 'They died at their posts like men'. 'What our mothers didn't tell us'. Has feminism liberated women?. CHAPTER 10: The Feminist Fifth Column; Rape Culture. The anti-rape bandwagon. The 'f*ckrapeculture' culture. Real rape. 85,000 women raped every year?. The infamous 1 in 5 'statistic'. The new rape. Shifting burden of responsibility. An enlightened regime?. Rape myths and the assault on justice. Is rape different?. Public servants, or Robin Hoods?. A voice of reason. The truth about rape. Fearmongering. The Gender Pay Gap. Equal pay: where next?. 'Ms-information'. The market for labour. Ordinary women. More part-time work is not the answer. The experience penalty. Elite women. MBAs. Preference theory. Whose hegemony?. The myth of the superwoman. The golden skirts. Role models. Blind (and blinding) equality. From each according to his ability... Divine discontent. Domestic Violence. Violence against women and girls worldwide. Domestic violence and abuse. Is it abuse or violence?. Women's Aid. The Duluth model. Agency and culpability. Statistical assault and battery. The 1 in 4 factoid. Teasing out the truth. Indisputable lies. Domestic homicide: the crime of passion. CHAPTER 11: The Line, It Is Drawn; Tides in the affairs of man. Ideological subversion. 'The long march through the institutions'. International feminism. The new establishment. Elitism. Common purpose. Real equality and diversity. 'It is poison'. Ideologies and 'isms. Animal Farm revisited. The danger of a male backlash. Crucial moment in history.

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Book SynopsisThe Empathy Gap presents extensive empirical evidence that men and boys are disadvantaged across a huge range of the most important areas of life, contrary to popular prejudice. These male disadvantages are hypothesised to originate in deep rooted, and culturally enhanced, biases which favour females and create an empathy gap towards males.Table of ContentsPreface 1. The Differently Gendered Society 1. 1.1 Purpose of this Book 1. 1.2 Equality? 2. 1.3 What is the Origin of the Empathy Gap? 6 1.3.1 The Nine Factors Underlying the Empathy Gap 10. 1.3.2 Discussion of the Factors Underlying the Empathy Gap 18. 1.4 Aims and Limitations 36. 2. Education 37. 2.1 Primary School Attainment 38. 2.2 Secondary School Attainment Aged 16 40. 2.3 A Levels 42. 2.4 University Entry 43. 2.5 Gender Gap and the Nature of the Award 47. 2.6 Innate Gender Difference? Adult Competencies 53. 2.7 School Staff and Stereotyping 55. 2.8 University Staff, STEMM and Athena Swan 57. 2.9 Gender Skew in Provision 62. 2.10 Perceptions and Expectations 64. 2.11 Worldwide 67. 2.12 Summary: The Education Empathy Gap 72. 3. Physical Health and Longevity 75. 3.1 Gender Disparity in Premature and Early Death 76. 3.2 The Leading Causes of Premature Death (<75) 78. 3.2.1 Cardiovascular Diseases 80. 3.2.2 Cancers 80. 3.2.3 HIV-AIDS 93. 3.3 The Leading Causes of Early Death (<45) 93. 3.4 Occupational Health and Workplace Injuries and Deaths 94. 3.4.1 Workplace Deaths in History 94. 3.4.2 Workplace Deaths Now 96. 3.4.3 Non-Fatal Injuries at Work 96. 3.4.4 Occupational Health Issues 96. 4. Men's Access to Healthcare and Health Spending by Sex 99. 4.1 Men's Access to Healthcare 99. 4.2 Global Health of Men 106. 4.3 Healthcare and Health Research Spending 106. 4.3.1 USA Healthcare Spending by Sex 107. 4.3.2 USA Health Research Spending by Sex 108. 4.4 The Empathy Gap in Men's Health 109 5. Male Genital Mutilation: History and Harm 114. 5.1 Anatomy, Histology and Function of the Foreskin 117. 5.1.1 Foreskin Development: Retraction 120. 5.2 The History of MGM 121. 5.3 MGM Procedures, Practitioners and Risk 125. 5.3.1 Risks of the Procedure 127. 5.4 Prevalence and Incidence of MGM 128. 5.5 The Harmful Effects of MGM 131. 5.5.1 Studies of Sensitivity 131. 5.5.2 Studies of Men's Sexual Experience after Circumcision 134. 5.5.3 Survey Evidence: Men's Subjective Experience of Circumcision 138 6. MGM: Claimed Benefits and Legality 141. 6.1 Background to the 2017 review of Morris et al 141. 6.2 Critique of the claims of Morris et al, 2017. 143. 6.2.1 Urinary Tract Infections 143. 6.2.2 Phimosis 145. 6.2.3 Balanitis / Candidiasis 146. 6.2.4 Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) 146. 6.2.5 Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) 146. 6.2.6 Other Diseases 150. 6.3 The Opinion of Medical Bodies Worldwide 152. 6.4 Legal Issues 155. 6.4.1 The Illegality of MGM in the UK 155. 6.4.2 Attempts to Make MGM Illegal in Other Countries 158. 6.5 The Male Genital Mutilation Empathy Gap 161. 7. Work, Pay, Tax, Spending and Pensions 164. 7.1 UK Unemployment Data 165. 7.2 UK Economic Inactivity 167. 7.3 Gendered Occupations 169. 7.3.1 The Public Sector 171. 7.3.2 Armed Forces 172. 7.3.3 Apprenticeships 172. 7.3.4 The Gender Equality "Paradox" 173. 7.3.5 Diversity? 177. 7.4 The UK Gender Pay Gap 179. 7.5 Gender Pay Gap Reporting: Company Submissions 183. 7.6 Working Hours: The Gender Pay Gap is a Work Gap 185. 7.7 Spending and Wealth by Sex 189. 7.7.1 UK in Year 1993/4 190. 7.7.2 Wealth and Spending, UK and USA, 2008 to 2018 192. 7.8 Income Taxes 194. 7.9 Pensions 196. 7.9.1 Occupational and Personal Pensions; the Private and Public Sectors 196. 7.9.2 The State Pension 201. 7.9.3 Numbers of Payees and Recipients 203. 7.9.4 Gender Pension Inequality? 206. 7.10 Housework and Unpaid Caring 207. 7.10.1 Men and Housework 207. 7.10.2 Men as Unpaid Carers 209. 7.11 The Empathy Gap in Work, Pay, Wealth, Spending and Taxes 209. 8. Imprisonment 213. 8.1 Harsher Treatment for Men 213. 8.1.1 Harsher Treatment Over Time 213. 8.1.2 Harsher Treatment by Sex 215. 8.2 Pop Goes the Woozle 233. 8.3 Characteristics of Prisoners 235. 8.3.1 Children in Prison 236. 8.3.2 Prisoners' IQ 238. 8.4 Male Prisoners and Their Families 239. 8.5 Self-Harming in Prison 239. 8.6 Deaths in Prison 241. 8.6.1 Suicide in Prison 241. 8.6.2 Deaths in Prison from 'Natural' Causes 241. 8.7 The Empathy Gap in Imprisonment 243. 9. Violence and Abuse 245. 9.1 All Violence 245. 9.1.1 Victims 245. 9.1.2 Perpetrators 251. 9.2 Violence and Abuse Within the Home: Men as Victims 253. 9.2.1 Incidence of Male Victims: Survey Data 255. 9.2.2 Severe Force 258. 9.2.3 Demographic Dependence of DA 258. 9.2.4 Domestic Violence and Marital Status 259. 9.2.5. Repeated Domestic Abuse 260. 9.2.6 Reports to Police, Prosecutions and Convictions 260. 9.2.7 Domestic Homicides 261. 9.2.8 International Studies of Domestic Abuse 268. 9.2.9 Dads as Victims of Domestic Violence 270. 9.2.10 Domestic Abuse Services: The Sexes Compared 271. 9.2.11 Perpetrator Programmes 272. 9.3 The Empathy Gap for Men as Victims of Violence 275. 10. Family Court Statistics 280. 10.1 Family Court Statistics (England and Wales) 280. 10.2 The Paramountcy Principle and the Perception of Risk 281. 10.3 Legal Aid, LASPO and the Role of False Allegations 282. 10.3.1 Legal Aid and LASPO 282. 10.3.2 The Domestic Violence Legal Aid Gateway 283. 10.3.3 Prevalence of Allegations of Domestic Abuse 285. 10.3.4 Which Sex Gets Legal Aid in the Family Courts? 286. 10.3.5 Routes through the Gateway 289. 10.3.6 Statistics of Domestic Violence Remedy Orders 290. 10.4 Lobbying and Serious Case Reviews 292. 10.5 The Empathy Gap Against Fathers in the Family Courts 294. 11. Are the Family Courts Biased Against Fathers? 296. 11.1. Introduction 296. 11.2 The 2008 Study of Hunt & MacLeod 297. 11.3 Lawyers', Judges' and Court Officers' Opinions 303. 11.4 The 2015 Study of Harding and Newnham 304. 11.5 Enforcement 308. 11.6 What Proportion of Separating Couples Apply to Court? 312. 11.7 Actual Contact Outcomes 313. 11.8 Financial Issues 317. 11.9 The Empathy Gap Against Non-Resident Fathers 318. 12. Parental Alienation, ACEs and the Woozling of Shared Parenting 322. 12.1 What is Parental Alienation? 322. 12.1.1 Prevalence of Alienation 326. 12.2 Adverse Childhood Experiences 329. 12.2.1 Behaviour and Health Outcomes of ACEs 330. 12.2.2 ACEs and Parental Involvement 332. 12.3 Woozling Shared Parenting 333. 12.4 Parental Conflict and the Benefit of Contact 341. 12.5 Empathy Gap in Alienation and Shared Care 342. 13. The Drivers of Fatherlessness 343. 13.1 Marriage, Divorce, Cohabitation and Single Living: the Data 344. 13.2 Statistics on Children's Living Arrangements 349. 13.3 The Decline of Marriage Drives Fatherlessness 351. 13.4 The Socioeconomics of Marriage: The Marriage Gap 353. 13.5 Summary of the Drivers of Fatherlessness 356. 14. The Effect of Fatherlessness on Outcomes for Children 358. 14.1 The Differing Perspectives on Fatherhood 359. 14.2 Families Without Fatherhood, Dennis & Erdos, 1992 360. 14.3 The Big Picture - A Selection of Studies 363. 14.4 The Study of Radl, Salazar and Cebolla-Boado, 2017 368. 14.5 The Study of McLanahan, Tach and Schneider, 2013 371. 14.6 The Indirect Empathy Gap for Fatherless Children 373. 15. Paternity and Its Enemies 375. 15.1 Men's Control Over Their Own Fertility 376. 15.1.1 Male Contraception 376. 15.1.2 Option Denied? 378. 15.1.3 Men's Fertility 380. 15.2 Mispaternity and Paternity Fraud 384. 15.2.1 Terminology and Perception 384. 15.2.2 The Prevalence of Mispaternity 385. 15.2.3 Men are Not Legally Entitled to Know if a Child is Theirs (UK) 391. 15.2.4 A "Thin View" of Fatherhood? 395. 15.3 The Empathy Gap Against Paternity and Male Fertility 402. 16. Homelessness and Loneliness 403. 16.1 Statutory Homelessness and "Single" Homelessness 403. 16.1.1 Statutory Homelessness in England 406. 16.1.2 Statutory Homelessness in Scotland 408. 16.1.3 Statutory Homelessness in Wales 409. 16.1.4 Statutory Homelessness in Northern Ireland 410. 16.1.5 Statutory Homelessness: The Big Picture on Gender 410. 16.2 Rough Sleepers 411. 16.2.1 Rough Sleeper Counts in England 411. 16.2.2 CHAIN Data for London 413. 16.2.3 Rough Sleeper Counts in Wales 416. 16.3 Deaths of Rough Sleepers 417. 16.3.1 Bethany Thomas 2012 Data 417. 16.3.2 ONS Data 417. 16.3.3 Data from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism 419. 16.4 Loneliness 421. 16.4.1 Loneliness Survey in England 422. 16.4.2 Loneliness Survey in Wales 424. 16.5 The Empathy Gap in Homelessness and Loneliness 427. 17. Mental Ill-Health and Substance Abuse 429. 17.1 Mental Ill Health in Adults 430. 17.1.1 Common Mental Disorders 430. 17.1.2 Personality Disorders 432. 17.1.3 Autism Spectrum Disorders 434. 17.1.4 Psychotic Disorders 436. 17.1.5 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) 437. 17.1.6 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) 438. 17.1.7 Bipolar Disorder 439. 17.1.8 Mental Disorders and Employment 440. 17.1.9 Access to Treatment by Demographic 440. 17.2 Mental Ill Health in Children and Young Adults 441. 17.2.1 All Disorders 441. 17.2.2 Emotional Disorders 443. 17.2.3 Behavioural Disorders 444. 17.2.4 Hyperactivity Disorders 445. 17.2.5 Autism, Eating Disorders and Less Common Disorders 446. 17.2.6 Mental Health Medication of Children 447. 17.2.7 Demographic, Lifestyle and Sexuality Factors 448. 17.2.8 Teenagers and Students in the USA 449. 17.3 Substance Abuse 450. 17.3.1 Alcohol Abuse 451. 17.3.2 Drug Abuse 451. 17.4 People Detained under the Mental Health Act 452. 17.5 APA and BPS Guidelines for the Psychological Practice with Boys and Men 453. 17.5.1 APA Versus Data 461. 17.6 The Empathy Gap in Mental Health Perceptions 463. 18. Suicide, Suicidality and Self-Harm 466. 18.1 Self-Harm, Suicidality and Suicide Attempts (England) 466. 18.2 Suicide 470. 18.2.1 UK Suicide Statistics and Trends 470. 18.2.2 The Suicide Paradox 476. 18.2.3 Reasons for the High Male Suicide Rate 476. 18.2.4 Methods of Suicide and Suicide Attempts 489. 18.3 Male Suicide: Narratives, Rationalisations and Blaming 491. 18.4 The Empathy Gap in Suicide 496. 19. Rape and False Allegations 501. 19.1 Definition of Sexual Offences 502. 19.2 Prevalence of Rape and Police Reports 506. 19.3 Conviction Statistics for Rape 510. 19.3.1 Sex of Rape Victims and Defendants 516. 19.4 Attrition 517. 19.5 Rape Trials and Juries 521. 19.5.1 Video Evidence by Complainants 522. 19.5.2 "Training" Rape Trial Juries 522. 19.5.3 Rape Trials Without Juries? 523. 19.6 False Allegations of Rape 524. 19.6.1 The Harm Done by False Allegations 531. 19.7 Disclosure 533. 19.8 The Empathy Gap in Accusations of Sexual Assault 540. 20. Sexual Assault: The Story Less Told 543. 20.1 Sex Offender Prisoner Statistics (UK) 544. 20.2 Examples of Women's Sexual Abuse of Minors 546. 20.3 The Prevalence of Female Sexual Abuse of Minors (UK) 550. 20.4 Male Offenders' History of Childhood Sexual Abuse 552. 20.5 Perceptions of Female Perpetration and the Damage Done 556. 20.6 The Sex of the Victim 558. 20.7 Female Offender Sentencing 559. 20.8 Female Sexual Offending in Correctional Facilities in the USA 560. 20.9 Sexual Assault of Adult Men by Women 563. 20.10 Adult Prison Sexual Assault 568. 20.11 War Rape 570. 20.12 The Empathy Gap in Sexual Assault 572. 21. Reprise: The Case for the Empathy Gap 575. 21.1 Education 578. 21.2 Health and Longevity 579. 21.3 Male Genital Mutilation 581. 21.4 Work, Pay, Tax and Pensions 582. 21.5 Imprisonment 584. 21.6 Violence and Abuse 585. 21.7 Family Courts 588. 21.8 Alienation, ACES and Shared Care 590. 21.9 Drivers of Fatherlessness 591. 21.10 Effects of Fatherlessness on Children 591. 21.11 Men's Fertility and Paternity Fraud 592. 21.12 Homelessness and Loneliness 593. 21.13 Mental Health 594. 21.14 Suicide 595. 21.15 Rape and False Allegations 598. 21.16 Sexual Assault: The Story Less Told 599. 21.17 In Conclusion 601. Acronyms 603. References 607. Index 651.

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