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A flawed utopia: The Men, by Sandra Newman, reviewed

4 June 2022

9:00 AM

4 June 2022

9:00 AM

The Men Sandra Newman

Granta, pp.272, 14.99

The problem for feminism is men. Not, specifically, in the sense that men are the source of women’s problems, although the statistics do tend to point in that direction. Feminism’s men problem is that, despite all this, women like men. Love men. One of the lessons of second-wave experiments in separatism is that the idealised man-free existence is always fighting against the gravity of affection.

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