Books like The end of men by Hanna Rosin

After a disastrous marriage, Kelly turns workaholic and wary of men, but her guarded heart stirs when she meets Jake Fielding, an escort for lonely women.

When English professor Loretta Lawson returns from a feminist conference, she discovers the body of a mysterious burglar in her rented Paris flat and must solve the murder using her literary expertise.

The Female Brain explains how women’s minds work, drawing on two decades of research and clinical practice to reveal the unique neurological and hormonal influences on female behavior.

A New Reality: Women in Power and the New Agenda for Change

As World War II came to a close, Paul de Kruif published a popularized discussion of testosterone in The Male Hormone. In it, he recounts the discovery of testosterone and his personal experience with taking the hormone as a dietary supplement. After a year of taking daily doses, the 55 year old noticed significant improvements in his muscle development, particularly in the chest and shoulders, as well as a general increase in energy levels. He described the effects of testosterone as if it were a special elixir used by “the human body to be able to build the very stuff of its own life.” The book envisioned a future where testosterone would supercharge ordinary human performance and extend the range of man’s natural vitality. Kruif was a former microbiologist turned science writer who first gained fame in 1926 for his dramatic portraits of early endocrinologists in Microbe Hunters. He was physically large and imposing, and was known as a colorful story-teller who made scientific discovery interesting to the general public. Sinclair Lewis, with whom Kruif co-authored the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Arrowsmith, described Kruif as “the boy who’ll try anything once.” The narrative tone of the testosterone story and Kruif’s explanation of its virtues fit easily into the author’s optimistic view of its role in future medicine. Testosterone made him feel like a younger, stronger, more virulent man. It was the key to manliness and a key to youth – all young men naturally produce testosterone of their own in abundance, but as old age sets in, time eventually steals it away. Kruif knew he was reliving his youth through artificial means, but as he promised, “I will try to renew my aging tissues with testosterone as long as I can.” Though he initially feared the “contemptuous smiles” of those who doubted the power of the hormone, Kruif admitted, “I’m no longer ashamed that it’s no longer made to its old degree by my old, aging body… It’s chemical crutches. It’s borrowed manhood. It’s borrowed time. But just the same, it’s what makes bulls bulls.” [Description taken from Aharon Zorea, *Steroids (Health and Medical Issues Today)*, Greenwood Press: New York, 2014]

Wendy McElroy defends pornography as a feminist right, arguing that women should enjoy, learn from, and participate in the industry, advancing the principle that a woman’s body is her own.

American society has become anti-male. Men are sensing the backlash and are consciously and unconsciously going "on strike." They are dropping out of college, leaving the workforce, and avoiding marriage and fatherhood at alarming rates. The trend is so pronounced that a number of books have been written about this "man-child" phenomenon, concluding that men have taken a vacation from responsibility simply because they can. But why should men participate in a system that seems to be increasingly stacked against them? As Men on Strike demonstrates, men aren't dropping out because they are stuck in arrested development. They are instead acting rationally in response to the lack of incentives society offers them to be responsible fathers, husbands, and providers. In addition, men are going on strike because they do not want to be injured by the myriad of laws, attitudes, and hostility against them for the crime of happening to be male in the twenty-first century. Men are starting to fight back against the backlash. Men on Strike explains their battle cry, and offers helpful suggestions for men and for society.