Citation

Wilkinson H. Reprod. Health Matters 1996; 4(7): 155-157.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S0968-8080(96)90019-1

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

If gender politics in the Eighties in Britain was dominated by Margaret Thatcher a woman who often acted more like a man, gender politics in the Nineties seems to be dominated by men trying to be more like women -- complaining about their oppression, their status as victims and how the world is conspiring against them. Their jobs are no longer as secure as they were, if they exist at all. Demand for their work or home skills is declining. They are increasingly prone to violence. Women seem ever more confident and able to do without them. They march against the iniquities of the Child Support Agency. They worry about their looks and how to preserve what is left of them. Men are becoming more like women in many respects. Indeed they are laying claim to an identity that many thought was a female preserve: men are becoming victims of virtually every force in modern society, economic, social and cultural.