Sex Matters

How Modern Feminism Lost Touch with Science, Love, and Common Sense

By: Mona Charen

Narrated by: Mona Charen

Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins

Publisher's summary

Author of the New York Times best seller Useful Idiots and popular columnist Mona Charen takes a close, reasoned look at the aggressive feminist agenda undermining the success and happiness of men and women across the country.

In this smart, deeply necessary critique, Mona Charen unpacks the ways feminism fails us at home, in the workplace, and in our personal relationships - by promising that we can have it all, do it all, and be it all. Here, she upends the feminist agenda and the liberal conversation surrounding women's issues by asking tough and crucial questions, such as:

• Did women's full equality require the total destruction of the nuclear family?
• Did it require a sexual revolution that would dismantle traditions of modesty, courtship, and fidelity that had characterized relations between the sexes for centuries?
• Did it cause the broken dating culture and the rape crisis on our college campuses?
• Did it require war between the sexes that would deem men the "enemy" of women?
• Have the strides of feminism made women happier in their home and work life. (The answer is no.)

Sex Matters tracks the price we have paid for denying sex differences and stoking the war of the sexes - family breakdown, declining female happiness, aimlessness among men, and increasing inequality. Marshaling copious social science research as well as her own experience as a professional as well as a wife and mother, Mona Charen calls for a sexual ceasefire for the sake of women, men, and children.

©2018 Mona Charen (P)2018 Random House Audio

Critic reviews

"Mona Charen has written a book that matters. Honest, fearless, and insightful, it's a polemic that's more than a polemic. It's a thought-provoking attempt to induce those willing to liberate themselves from contemporary pieties to think anew about the family, about equality, and about the nature of men and women." (William Kristol, editor at large, The Weekly Standard)

“An honest book on a crucial subject by a wonderful writer. Her book will be widely praised and widely attacked. Even the attackers, somewhere within themselves, will know it’s true. This is a book that deals in reality.” (Jay Nordlinger, senior editor, National Review)

“Sex Matters is a cultural milestone. Mona Charen dissolves decades of fallacies in the acid of honesty. I found this book thrilling.” (George Gilder, author of Life After Google and Men and Marriage)

Worth the purchase.

This is a timely audiobook on a subject that needs clarity in the mist of morass we find society in.

fantastic listen

I thoroughly enjoyed this listen. I already plan to listen to it again, so many good stats and information.

Amazing book!

Facts and real numbers! Good research and easy read. Highly recommend it. Very relative to out days.

A handbook for living life well

As a 60 year old grandmother I found myself nodding along to so much of this book. So many truths that should be common sense but have been largely lost in the strange fantasy world that many have created and wish to foist upon all of us. There seems to be a fervent desire to tear down all norms and traditions, even ones that clearly work better than others tried before (and there is nothing new in human relations - it has ALL been done before). But I suppose it may seem that way because I am old.

well researched and well argued

all-around great and much needed book in this day and age of promiscuity and ignorance of history.

Excellent! The Book Feminazis Wish Never Written

Well written, well researched, and an phenomenal critique of dubious books like The Feminist Manifesto. This should be read by all men and women in society today.

Do be warned, her chapter on abortion is absolute garbage. And her chapter on gender identity, while it has some good points, is deafening missing the mark

Male perspective

I wish I could write a longer response from a male perspective. Let me just say, as the recipient of one of the first female pilots in my squadron and someone who solved rubics cube (with my wife’s help, lol) and the father of 4 daughters and grandfather to 14 granddaughters and 3 great granddaughters, RIGHT ON, Mona!

A Much Needed Examination of the Current Times...

As we, as a country, move in a more progressive and liberal direction, information and books like this one shine a glaring light of honesty on the numerous atrocities that accompany our movement. Very well researched and factually based, an unpopular book with an unpopular stance, but a very necessary one. God bless Mona Charen and her team!

Spot on discussion about the feminist movement.

loved it, puts a lot things into perspective and opens a discussion with fact not feeling.

Wish I could give 10 stars

This book is eye-opening, honest, and truly courageous. I am 72 now and wish that (had it been written then) I had read it as a young woman. I believe that it would have changed my life. Perhaps the best non-fiction book I have ever read.