the end of men
«Glasgow, 2025. La doctora Amanda Maclean responde a una llamada para atender a un paciente con síntomas similares a los de la gripe. Pero, al cabo de tres horas, el paciente muere. Ese es el comienzo. El virus desconocido arrasa con el hospital a una velocidad mortífera. Todas las víctimas son hombres. …
What Betty Friedan, Simone de Beauvoir, and Naomi Wolf did for feminism, senior editor of The Atlantic Hanna Rosin does for a new generation of women: an explosive new argument for why women are winning the battle of the sexes.Women are no longer catching up with men. By almost every measure, they are out-performing them.·Women in Britain hold half the jobs·Women own over 40% of Chinas private businesses·75% of couples in fertility clinics are requesting girls, not boy·Women will outnumber men in the UK medical profession by 2017·In 1970, women in the US contributed to 2-6% of the family income. Now it is 42.2%This is an astonishing time. In a job market that favours people skills and intelligence, womens adaptability and flexibility makes them better suited to the modern world.In The End of Men, Hanna Rosin reveals how this has come to pass and explains its implications for marriage, sex, children, work, families and society.Exposing old assumptions and drawing on examples from across the globe, Rosin shows us how we must all adapt to a radically new way of working and living.One of the most controversial books since Naomi Wolfs The Beauty Myth StylistExplosive Daily MailFascinating Sunday Times
- Fecha de lanzamiento: 21/09/2012
- Año de edición: 2012
- ISBN: 9780670922642
- Idioma: INGLÉS
- Editorial: VIKING
Set in a world where a virus stalks our male population, The End of Men is an electrifying and unforgettable debut from a remarkable new talent that asks: what would life truly look like without men?Only men are affected by the virus; only women have the power to save us all. The year is 2025, and a mysterious virus has broken out in Scotland–a lethal illness that seems to affect only men. When Dr. Amanda MacLean reports this phenomenon, she is dismissed as hysterical. By the time her warning is heeded, it is too late. The virus becomes a global pandemic–and a political one. The victims are all men. The world becomes alien–a women’s world.What follows is the immersive account of the women who have been left to deal with the virus’s consequences, told through first-person narratives. Dr. MacLean; Catherine, a social historian determined to document the human stories behind the male plague; intelligence analyst Dawn, tasked with helping the government forge a new society; and Elizabeth, one of many scientists desperately working to develop a vaccine. Through these women and others, we see the uncountable ways the absence of men has changed society, from the personal–the loss of husbands and sons–to the political–the changes in the workforce, fertility and the meaning of family.In The End of Men, Christina Sweeney-Baird creates an unforgettable tale of loss, resilience and hope.
