Testosterone Power

IN HIS introduction to Why Men Rule, Steven Goldberg mentions that he had briefly considered giving this title to an earlier version of the book, published in the Seventies as The Inevitability of Patriarchy. But, he notes, readers then would have misapprehended what he was up to. They would have assumed he was out to explain why some men, rather than other men, run things in the world. In the sexually politicized Nineties, with Naomi Wolf and other “power feminists” on the march, misunderstandings seem less likely. Although the earlier work is here substantially rewritten, its point remains the same: to explain why men, rather than women, have always run things and will continue to do so. Naomi, meet Steve.

Why Men Rule: A Theory of Male Dominance, by Steven Goldberg (Open Court, 254 pp., $39.95)

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Daniel Seligman

IN HIS introduction to Why Men Rule, Steven Goldberg mentions that he had briefly considered giving this title to an earlier version of the book, published in the Seventies as The Inevitability of Patriarchy. But, he notes, readers then would have misapprehended what he was up to. They would have assumed he was out to explain why some men, rather than other men, run things in the world. In the sexually politicized Nineties, with Naomi Wolf and other “power feminists” on the march, misunderstandings seem less likely. Although the earlier work is here substantially rewritten, its point remains the same: to explain why men, rather than women, have always run things and will continue to do so. Naomi, meet Steve.

Why Men Rule: A Theory of Male Dominance, by Steven Goldberg (Open Court, 254 pp., $39.95)