Book Reading Group in Progress

During the last MANN on-line chat, we discussed starting a group book reading project to help educate activists about the issues and encourage people to buy and read books on or related to men's rights. The first book we decided on reading is Christina Hoff Sommer's book Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women. If you received a gift certificate to a book store recently (or even if you didn't), you might want to pick up a copy of this book and join our discussions on it. Click Read More below for details on our reading schedule and what to do to join us.

Who Stole Feminism is about 275 pages long and consists of twelve chapters. Our reading schedule is to cover 3-4 chapters each week, and have an ongoing discussion of the book via an e-mail list which is being set up right now on Mensactivism.org (I'll announce how to subscribe to it before January 1). When the mailing list is started the plan is that participants will have read the first four chapters by January 1, so you might want to buy the book now or check it out at your local library (if they have a copy).

To anyone who hasn't read WSF, it's a great book, and exposes a ton of significant feminist myths that have permeated our culture (including the infamous "1 in 4 women are raped while in college" lie). While the book focuses more on debunking bad feminist studies than on men's rights, the research exposed in this book is part of what I might call the "baseline literacy" that pro-male activists need to be informed about to promote men's issues most effectively (Warren Farrell's Myth of Male Power is the other seminal book, IMHO).

Where to buy the book? Well, it's up to you, but I'd strongly advise against Barnes & Noble, since they have been lobbied by us but refuse to create a separate book section for Men's Studies books in their retail stores. Borders Books, on the other hand, has a Men's Studies book section and should be encouraged for it. Apparently they are now owned by Amazon.com. But these are simply suggestions for you to consider.

Anyone is welcome to join this book reading group, male or female. I'll be posting this announcement both on MANN and the iFeminists.com bulletin board. We hope you'll join us!

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