Good Will Toward Men:
Women Talk Candidly About the Balance of Power Between the Sexes
St. Martin’s Press, 1994
Back in print.
Also available as a PDF download.
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Good Will Toward Men offers significant new perspectives on the pressing issue of gender-based discrimination. The diverse women whose lively, forceful voices make up this eminently readable book all agree on one compelling conclusion: that women can never enjoy personal autonomy, liberty, or equality so long as either women or men remain strait-jacketed by society’s gender-based stereotypes. A welcome and needed book. With the heart and soul of our society focused around gender struggle, Jack Kammer’s passionate and intelligent Good Will Toward Men may help us move away from unproductive divisiveness and empty, simplistic blaming, toward a new gender conviviality. This is a courageous book that steps outside the gender neurosis of our time, offering much-needed, if difficult, fresh perspectives on the efforts of us all to be individuals. Good Will Toward Men moves beyond the old. tired rhetoric of women’s rights vs. men’s rights. The powerful and intelligent female voices in this book herald a new era of cooperation and mature partnership between the sexes based upon gender justice, mutual understanding and respect. Good Will Toward Men is a well-reasoned invitation to replace blame with understanding, hostility with compassion, and bitterness with reconciliation. It calls for a dialogue of inclusion that could defuse the battle between the sexes that only perpetuates the cycle of wounding. An open-minded reading could go a long way toward healing the pain of betrayal felt by both men and women. A refreshing respite from the hardened attitudes and inflammatory rhetoric that lead to more misery for everyone. |
The first step toward ending the battle of the sexes is to listen, listen, listen with compassion and good will to both sides. Jack Kammer’s book presents fresh, thought-provoking material for us to listen to. Marvin Allen, M.A., psychotherapist, author of In the Company of Men: A New Approach to Healing for Husbands, Fathers and Friends Good Will Toward Men is a wise, brave and long overdue book. Free of malice and ideological cant, the women here speak truths that millions of us, men and women both, will recognize from personal experience. Jack Kammer does a fine job of facilitating the dialogue, bringing out a different perspective without alienating or polarizing the women he talks to. This is a fine book and I hope it’s widely read, because it’s badly needed. A great and important book. Good Will Toward Men is a masterpiece that begins the bridging of the gender gap. It is water in the desert of gender-polarization and will become a rallying point for women and men of good will. A powerful and deeply moving book aimed at dissolving the absurd war between the sexes. While respecting the legitimate needs and grievances of women, the contributors to this volume sensitively and compassionately illuminate ’the man’s story,’ about which so little is known. Every man owes a ‘thank you’ to the women interviewed in this book. A provocative book that makes us take another look at what women really think about men. It leads the way to calling a truce in the battle of the sexes. This book opens up the conversation between men and women in ways it has never been opened before. Jack Kammer provides the catalyst that can push our understanding of men’s and women’s roles to new heights. |
This wonderful book makes enchanting reading. The many voices of these diverse, intelligent women make powerful testimony for sanity and humanity. This is an important early step toward amnesty in the war between the sexes. In Good Will Toward Men, we are treated to America’s first view of the genuinely liberated woman: women who believe as much in responsibilities as in rights; as much in men’s goodness (and evil) as in women’s goodness (and evil); women who are internally secure and therefore not politically correct. The great man behind these women is Jack Kammer, who seems to know when to listen and when to confront. Good Will Toward Men will create good will toward women. It will help turn the women’s and men’s movements into a gender transition movement. It will help turn the war between the sexes into love between the sexes. Jack Kammer has given us the book we need as we move toward a necessary reconciliation between men and women in this culture. Good Will Toward Men presents the views of twenty-two fair- minded, optimistic, intelligent women who have broken through the wall of politically correct rhetoric and made some judgments of their own. A hopeful, healing book that is, I trust, the start of our next revolution. Jack Kammer deserves high praise for providing a lively forum for independent women who care about men and who are strong enough to disagree with politically correct gender discourse. Good Will Toward Men shows us how our thinking regarding men requires some change. This book will help our relationships with men. An important book, bound to stir controversy and, if read carefully, to stir the dialogue between men and women. |