Are Men Necessary? by Maureen Dowd (2005)

Maureen Dowd is one of my favorite opinion columnists, along with Barbara Erehnreich, and the recently deceased Molly Ivins. I've been reading this book for a few months, as it really isn't a story, but a series of essays on gender issues. Many of her facts are quite disconcerting - the huge increase in plastic surgery in the last few years, the way the younger women seem to be going backwards on many women's rights issues. Fascinating compilation of current cultural indicators, but not in an academic sense. This kind of book cries out for footnotes and a bibliography, but it is not that kind of an academic book.