Table of Contents

Chapter 1: What a Question!
Chapter 2: Are Women Better than Men, or Vice Versa?
Chapter 3: The Most Underappreciated Fact about Men
Chapter 4: Are Women More Social?
Chapter 5: How Culture Works
Chapter 6: Women, Men, and Culture: The Roots of Inequality
Chapter 7: Expendable Beings, Disposable Lives
Chapter 8: Earning Manhood, and the Male Ego
Chapter 9 Exploiting Men through Marriage and Sex
Chapter 10: What Else, What Next?

About the Author

Roy F. Baumeister is the Eppes Eminent Professor of Psychology and head of the social psychology graduate program at Florida State University. The Institute for Scientific Information lists him among the handful of most cited (most influential) psychologists in the world. He is the co-editor, with John Baer and James Kaufman, of Are We Free? Psychology and Free Will and The Cultural Animal: Human Nature, Meaning, and Social Life.

Reviews

"[Baumeister] does make the fascinating point that men operate at the extremes, socially and biologically." --Bitch
'Male readers may find some solace in Roy F. Baumeister's "Is There Anything Good About Men?" Mr. Baumeister is less concerned about the wimpification of modern man than about the degree to which men have been historically "exploited." The very cultures that men have built, he says, have considered males more expendable than women... But men, Mr. Baumeister says, are often taken for granted and denigrated as the bane of female existence, with some gender
activist insisting that women would be better off without them. In a feisty rejoinder, Mr. Baumeister says that "'if women really would have been happier without men, they would have set up shop on their own
long ago."
--Dave Shiflett, Wall Street Journal
"Read this if you're open to a thought-provoking take on so-called battle of the sexes. Packed with counterintuitive but convincing points, the book will reshape how you think about sexism, feminism, and gender differences." Andrea Bartz, Psychology Todayl
"There are some interesting arguments concerning marriage, procreation, and the creation of culture that students and professionals in the field of evolutionary psychology probably
would be interested in discussing further." -- Elin Weiss, Sex Roles