Women Men and the Whole Damn Thing

One of the most talked-about and widely praised articles of 2018, expanded into the water-cooler book of the #MeToo era.

In February 2018, the Good Weekend cover story by David Leser, Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing, had an extraordinary response. David received hundreds of personal messages from readers around the world - both men and women - urging him to expand his story. Here is that book: a brilliant, impassioned, unflinching account of the firestorm of #MeToo, how we got there and where we must go now.

In this essential and incisive investigation, Leser unearths the roots of misogyny, its inextricable links to the patriarchy and how history brought us to the #Metoo movement and the wave of incandescent female rage that is sweeping the world. Crucially, he also interrogates his own psyche, privilege and culpability as he bears witness to the 'collective wound of the world' and asks how we can move towards healing and profound and permanent change.

Featured in the October 2019 Sociology + Social Work newsletter.
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