Posted on 05/25/2005 12:31:09 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
NEW YORK, May 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Maureen Dowd, following the success of her acclaimed New York Times bestselling book, Bushworld, has turned her lapidary prose and wicked wit to a topic even more incendiary than presidential politics: sexual politics. Dowd's new book, ARE MEN NECESSARY? When Sexes Collide, will be published by G.P. Putnam's Sons on November 8th, 2005. The New York Times columnist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for saucy and incisive commentary about the roundelay of Bill, Monica, Hillary and Ken Starr, digs into the Y and X files, exploring the mysteries and muddles of sexual combat in America. Neil Nyren, Senior Vice President, Publisher and Editor in Chief of G.P. Putnam's Sons, acquired world and audio rights to ARE MEN NECESSARY? from literary agent Esther Newberg of ICM.
Mr. Nyren comments, "Maureen has been writing brilliantly about the battle of the sexes -- socially, politically, culturally -- for decades, so this is such a natural subject for her next book. I'm extremely excited about it."
In ARE MEN NECESSARY?, Dowd explains why getting ready for a date went from glossing, flossing and gargling to Paxiling, Fraxeling and Googling; why men are in an evolutionary and romantic shame spiral; why women have reeled backwards in many ways; why male politicians and male institutions get tripped up in so much monkey business; why many alpha women, from Martha to Hillary, can only have a successful second act after becoming humiliated victims; and why the new definition of "Having It All" is less about empowerment and equality than flirting and getting rescued.
Dowd observes that four decades after the sexual revolution, nothing has worked out as planned. The sexes are circling each other as uneasily and comically as ever, from the bedroom to the boardroom to the Situation Room. Having reported on historic explosions on the sexual battlefield from Geraldine Ferraro's vice presidential run to the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings to Hillary Rodham Clinton's reign as co-President, Dowd explores not only how many of these shining feminist triumphs soured, backfiring on women - but how Hillary, a feminist icon busy plotting her campaign to be the first woman president, delivered the final blow to female solidarity herself.
Women's liberation has been less a steady trajectory than a confusing zigzag. Feminism lasted for a nanosecond and generated a gender tangle that has bewitched, bothered and bewildered men and women for forty years. Now comes a woman to cut through the tangle and tickle Adam's rib. The battle of the sexes will never be the same.
NOTE TO THE PRESS:
Maureen Dowd's first book, Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk (G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover, Berkley paperback) spent ten weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and was one of the most talked about books of 2004. National and print media included two appearances on NBC's "Today Show," appearances on "The Late Show with David Letterman," "Imus in the Morning," "The Charlie Rose Show," "Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace," NPR's "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, and Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," as well as feature interviews with photos in both Vanity Fair and W Magazine, and a review in The New York Times Book Review.
Dowd became a New York Times op-ed columnist in 1995, having written about the White House and its occupants since the Reagan Era. Previously she wrote the "On Washington" column for The New York Times Magazine. She has also written for Time magazine, GQ, The New Republic, Harper's Bazaar, Mademoiselle, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, Sports Illustrated and Redbook. She is a native of Washington, D.C.
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Dowd puts me in mind of a rather effeminate boy in gym class many years ago. He was constantly talking knowingly about women. Turned out he was gay (no surprise) and the talk was cover so we wouldn't pick up on it (we did). I think Dowd doth protest too much.
When you're drunk all the time, it's hard to find a good man ( or is that good to find a hard man)?
Well, I'm a guy and I sure as hell know WOMEN are necessary.
If she's a woman and doesn't think MEN are necessary, maybe SHE has the problem.
*PING*
-Regards. T.
Just got through unplugging our toilet.
"But...but...but...I thought that THIS was maureen dowdy. :-)"
It was. A long time ago. Before she became bitter, drank too much for too long, and aged horribly. Some years ago, before all of that, she wasn't at all hard to look at, or, I would imagine, to wake up and find next to you. She produced better prose then, too.
But now, she is the living embodiment of the dark side of misguided feminism - a warning to younger women of it's perils. There is absolutely nothing wrong with educated women of talent and accomplishment. Personally, I find them quite appealing. As long as they don't become men along the way.
I'll bet Newberg knows a thing or two about what went on that night and how it all played out...not that she'd ever talk.
Because we can't stand to look at MoDo. Who would you rather see a picture of and if you say Mo then please resign from the republican party immediately.
Yeah, geez! SOMEBODY'S got to do the housework.
And she's gonna need them. I can't speak as a man, but I wonder what men would ever see in her, except maybe $$.
cyborg, onyx & MB, thought you'd all like to ping away at this. I have to go out for a while but I'll be back later.
lol-ing... *that* was a definite gaffaw line, dear. I was thinking.. hatchet face.. when your Borgnine line showed up. Yours is muuuuch better.
I must point out tho... the exquisite irony of the title of her book. If no man wants her, then how does she have the credibility to opine a book on whether or not men are necessary. Like.. she's some kinda queen bee? Oh YEAH! All Liberal Women Should Be Accepting Talking Points From Her...
It's like when I won't let my 4-year-old have candy before dinner and she states, "good I didn't want it anyway.." I'm sure the thought process is the same with Maureen and men! :)
In the case of her men, it would be DieFlaccid.
I must have been asleep last year.
Huh?
(cracking up)... Yup. "I'll show YOU!!!"
her lapidary prose
Yes, she's been grinding out the same cubic zirconium
for a long time now, and it's still not worth the paper
it's written on.
Batteries run out. That's all I have to say.
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