The Woman Racket

    The new science explaining how the sexes relate at work, at play and in society

    Steve Moxon

    February 4, 2008
    308 pp., £19.95 / $39.90, 978-1845401092 (cloth) 
    308 pp., £9.95 / $19.95, 978-1845401504 (pbk.)

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    Steve Moxon has earned a reputation for foresight

    His first book, The Great Immigration Scandal (2004), blew the whistle on abuses within the Home Office and led to the resignation of the immigration minister, Beverley Hughes. Although attacked at the time by the government and the ‘liberal’ media for alarmism, Moxon’s analysis has now been adopted by most of the major political parties. Indeed his views on the dangers of multiculturalism were even echoed by the Chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, leading the Evening Standard to claim ‘Moxon appears not so much a racist as a visionary’.

    But immigration was never his primary interest, in fact he joined the Home Office in order to study its HR policy, as part of a decade-long investigation of men–women. This book is the result. Notwithstanding its provocative title, The Woman Racket is a serious scientific investigation into one of the key myths of our age – that women are oppressed by the ‘patriarchal’ traditions of Western societies. Drawing on the latest developments in evolutionary psychology, Moxon finds that the opposite is true – men, or at least the majority of low-status males – have always been the victims of deep-rooted prejudice. As the prejudice is biologically derived, it is unconscious and can only be uncovered with the tools of scientific psychology.

    The book reveals this prejudice in fields as diverse as healthcare, employment, family policy and politics: compared to the long and bloody struggle for universal male suffrage, women were given the vote ‘in an historical blink of the eye’.

    "The Woman Racket will fascinate you as it teaches you how social scientists have gotten it wrong and how feminists have gotten it backwards. The Woman Racket is an extraordinarily thoughtful, erudite, well-researched, politically incorrect and courageous journey into why men are the way they are--and why women are the way they are.  If you're a student of men and women, prepare to become a scholar;  if you are involved in social services or social policy, prepare to become a pioneer."
    Warren Farrell, PhD,author, The Myth of Male Power and Why Men Are the Way They Are

    Table of Contents
    Sample full text: Progressing Backwards: The political and social foreground
    Sample full text: Why There Are Males
    Sample full text: Difference Incarnate: Sex-typical variation
    Panel: Getting all in a muddle over motivation
    Panel: The female DH
    Panel: Why is rexy so sexy?
    Panel: The clique
    Panel: A licence to kill
    Panel: Pseud's corner
    Panel: Cartesian meditations
    Panel: When Naomi cried wolf, Katie said baah
    Panel: The Sugar Daddy
    Coda
    Index

    Links

    Author interview on Dads on the Air (Australian radio)
    Author interview with Henry Makow on Male Mentoring (RBN Radio)
    Paper: Steve Moxon, Dominance hierarchy as integral to reproductive suppression.
    Author blog
    The Great Immigration Scandal