Can men know what liberated women really want? Gene Marine thinks they can. In this indispensable handbook on the women's liberation movement he explains clearly and dispassionately one of the major controversies of its time. Addressing himself to the American male who feels embattled--engaged in a contest he doesn't understand over issues he is only dimly aware of--Marine analyzes the problems currently concerning women from job equality to marriage to role conditioning and the question of "sexuality." He also analyzes the "masculinism" of American society (perpetuated in the family, in children's books, in school and throughout our popular culture and mass media) and deals with what is behind the typical male stereotypes about the ugly, frustrated, man-hating liberated woman. Written to promote understanding on both sides of the barricades, this book should be read by men and women alike.

Gene Marine, the author of America the Raped and co-author with Judith Van Allen of Food Pollution, is a male who has been able to perceive that American men are both oppressors and victims. "It sounds crazy," the author writes, "but we are victimized into being oppressors. We have to understand what is done to us in order to understand what we do to them. Then we can fight back--together."