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The gender difference

M. Catherine DeSoto, Robert Hitlan, Rory-Sean Deol and Derrick McAdams (UNI): Testosterone Fluctuations in Young Men: The Difference Between Interacting With Like and Not-Like Others. The hormone of laddishness: Oestrogen, not testosterone, is what makes a male act like a male. An interview with Jay Kleinberg on books on the history of American women. A look at why feminism must move away from "women’s issues". Kerry Howley on the legacy of modern feminism: A review essay. An interview with Laurie A. Wilkie, author of The Lost Boys of Zeta Psi: A Historical Archaeology of Masculinity at a University Fraternity. A case for men’s studies: Guys get short shrift at North American universities with a lack of male-focused courses and programs. Feminism and the politics of our selves: Is accepting the Foucaultian claim that the subject is constituted by power tantamount to denying the possibility of emancipatory resistance? From The New York Review of Magazines, I am Woman, hear me blog: Feminism’s newest battleground is online; and dude reads like a lady: Derrick Taylor on a man’s eight-step guide to reading women’s magazines. With the launch of The Good Men Project Magazine, Tom Matlack says he wants to “take the magazine model and completely change it for men and and Internet.” An interview with Susan Douglas, author of Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message That Feminism’s Work is Done. How far have women come — really? The problem with equality: Those who cry foul over the lack of women in top political jobs are relying on faulty logic. Do men have a sexual advantage in the post-Viagra world? Changing the dating game: When women approach men instead of vice versa, the gender difference in selectivity disappears.