Can anyone recommend a good book for a recovering male chauvinist?

[mzmolly]

A friend of mine is interested in changing his attitudes about women, and I wondered if any one here could recommend a book or two to help with his journey.

Thanks

[shraby]

1. Don't know of any books, but just tell him

to treat women like a friend.

[Mara Steele]

2. "The Second Sex" by Simone de Beauvoir

A comprehensive, feminist classic...

But as for actual recovery manuals, I don't know... Am sure there are some good ones, though.

To your friend: :yourock:

What an awesome, conscious choice to make...

[CanuckAmok]

4. The politics of Reality...

I forget who wrote it...I'm sure somone here knows.

[slappypan]

3. Barbara Ehrenreich's book

"The Hearts of Men", also Susan Faludi's books. There is also a good book about masculinity called "The Warrior Myth," by a man whose name escapes me at the moment.

[Fenris]

5. "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

A novel, but it makes one understand women more than anything else I have read.

[Maddy McCall]

6. He needs to read Susan Faludi's Backlash.

This is a MUST READ for anyone who wants to understand women and the issues they face in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.

Exposes lies that are being told about feminism and the tactics used by the right and by anti-feminists who now wear the mantle of feminism, like Christina Hoff Summers (the absolute worst anti-feminist "feminist").

This is a great springboard to other stuff. He can understand feminism and the anti-feminist backlash in one book. :-)

[no_hypocrisy]

7. "Female Eunuch" by Germaine Greer, and "The Feminine Mystique"

by Betty Friedan. Both are admittedly dated, but poignant and timeless in their sentiments.

[Taverner]

8. "Backlash" and "Stiffed" by Susan Faludi

He will understand his chauvinism better after reading those, especially "Stiffed"

[mzmolly]

9. Thanks all for the great suggestions!

I'll pass them on. :hi: