Scholar hopes to reduce gulf between men and women

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'Katherine Young isn’t in the habit of picking fights.

But the 70-year-old Hinduism specialist didn’t like what she witnessed in the 1990s when a hard-edged stream of feminist scholarship started gaining traction as conventional thinking in higher education and popular culture.

Now associated with the University of Victoria after a distinguished career at McGill University in Montreal, Young had engaged in her own feminist research while studying at the University of Chicago and Harvard — because she’s a firm believer in equality of the sexes.

But Young began feeling “pushed” when a powerful arm of feminism took an ominous turn — toward gender superiority and a double standard. Men’s experiences were denounced and silenced by what she calls “ideological feminists,” whom she distinguishes from “equality feminists.”

While Young remains leery of the spotlight, she and McGill University colleague Paul Nathanson have found themselves in the past 15 years at the incendiary forefront of exposing a trend in North America — the sexist counterpart of misogyny, which they call “misandry.”

The fourth book in their misandry series, which is again being published by risk-taking McGill-Queen’s University Press, will soon be released. Titled Replacing Misandry: A Revolutionary History, it explains how technological advances have harmed men and boys, reducing the value of physicality.'