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A Man’s World: How Real is Male Privilege—and How High Is Its Price? by Ellis Cose (HarperCollins, 250pp., $22)

CRITICS of feminism are often accused of focusing on a few cases of extremism in the feminist ranks in order to discredit the entire movement. But if the extremists were as marginal as feminist sympathizers say, and if moderation and reason were in the ascendancy, books like this one would not need to be written. In describing the discontent and confusion that men are experiencing in face of the gender revolution, Ellis Cose, a contributing editor of Newsweek, shows that the feminist picture of men and masculinity needs considerable qualification.

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A Man’s World: How Real is Male Privilege—and How High Is Its Price? by Ellis Cose (HarperCollins, 250pp., $22)

CRITICS of feminism are often accused of focusing on a few cases of extremism in the feminist ranks in order to discredit the entire movement. But if the extremists were as marginal as feminist sympathizers say, and if moderation and reason were in the ascendancy, books like this one would not need to be written. In describing the discontent and confusion that men are experiencing in face of the gender revolution, Ellis Cose, a contributing editor of Newsweek, shows that the feminist picture of men and masculinity needs considerable qualification.