Title: My enemy, my love : man-hating and ambivalence in women's lives /
Authors: Levine, Judith.
Publisher: Doubleday,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Women Psychology.; Misandry.; Stereotypes (Social psychology); Interpersonal relations
Abstract: Destined to become the first "postfeminist" feminist classic, My Enemy, My Love is a landmark exposition of the intellectually and emotionally rich, little explored, often subterranean world of women's hatred of men, and what author Judith Levine calls "its more diplomatic and doubtful twin, ambivalence." Levine, a respected journalist, argues that man-hating is not an individual neurosis but rather a "collective, cultural phenomenon," and not just a problem for women or for feminism, but for men, too, who contribute to its causes and suffer its consequences. A volatile admixture of pity, contempt, disgust, envy, alienation, fear, and rage, man-hating is everywhere, shared by all women.^
Contents: Prologue: Man-hating -- pt. I. Images of the Enemy. Naming the Enemy. 1. The Infant. Mama's Boy. The Babbler. The Bumbler. The Invalid. 2. The Betrayer. The Seducer. The Slave. The Abandoner. The Abductor. 3. The Beast. The Brute. The Pet. The Prick. The Killer -- pt. II. Private Love, Public Hatred. 4. Daughters and Fathers. 5. Sisterhood and the Patriarch -- pt. III. Living With Ambivalence. 6. Battle. 7. Attrition. 8. Capitulation. 9. Separate Peace. 10. Withdrawal. 11. Infiltration. 12. Declaration of Independence. 13. Truce. 14. Negotiation.