Posted on 05/25/2005 12:31:09 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
NEW YORK, May 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Maureen Dowd, following the success of her acclaimed New York Times bestselling book, Bushworld, has turned her lapidary prose and wicked wit to a topic even more incendiary than presidential politics: sexual politics. Dowd's new book, ARE MEN NECESSARY? When Sexes Collide, will be published by G.P. Putnam's Sons on November 8th, 2005. The New York Times columnist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for saucy and incisive commentary about the roundelay of Bill, Monica, Hillary and Ken Starr, digs into the Y and X files, exploring the mysteries and muddles of sexual combat in America. Neil Nyren, Senior Vice President, Publisher and Editor in Chief of G.P. Putnam's Sons, acquired world and audio rights to ARE MEN NECESSARY? from literary agent Esther Newberg of ICM.
Mr. Nyren comments, "Maureen has been writing brilliantly about the battle of the sexes -- socially, politically, culturally -- for decades, so this is such a natural subject for her next book. I'm extremely excited about it."
In ARE MEN NECESSARY?, Dowd explains why getting ready for a date went from glossing, flossing and gargling to Paxiling, Fraxeling and Googling; why men are in an evolutionary and romantic shame spiral; why women have reeled backwards in many ways; why male politicians and male institutions get tripped up in so much monkey business; why many alpha women, from Martha to Hillary, can only have a successful second act after becoming humiliated victims; and why the new definition of "Having It All" is less about empowerment and equality than flirting and getting rescued.
Dowd observes that four decades after the sexual revolution, nothing has worked out as planned. The sexes are circling each other as uneasily and comically as ever, from the bedroom to the boardroom to the Situation Room. Having reported on historic explosions on the sexual battlefield from Geraldine Ferraro's vice presidential run to the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings to Hillary Rodham Clinton's reign as co-President, Dowd explores not only how many of these shining feminist triumphs soured, backfiring on women - but how Hillary, a feminist icon busy plotting her campaign to be the first woman president, delivered the final blow to female solidarity herself.
Women's liberation has been less a steady trajectory than a confusing zigzag. Feminism lasted for a nanosecond and generated a gender tangle that has bewitched, bothered and bewildered men and women for forty years. Now comes a woman to cut through the tangle and tickle Adam's rib. The battle of the sexes will never be the same.
NOTE TO THE PRESS:
Maureen Dowd's first book, Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk (G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover, Berkley paperback) spent ten weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and was one of the most talked about books of 2004. National and print media included two appearances on NBC's "Today Show," appearances on "The Late Show with David Letterman," "Imus in the Morning," "The Charlie Rose Show," "Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace," NPR's "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, and Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," as well as feature interviews with photos in both Vanity Fair and W Magazine, and a review in The New York Times Book Review.
Dowd became a New York Times op-ed columnist in 1995, having written about the White House and its occupants since the Reagan Era. Previously she wrote the "On Washington" column for The New York Times Magazine. She has also written for Time magazine, GQ, The New Republic, Harper's Bazaar, Mademoiselle, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, Sports Illustrated and Redbook. She is a native of Washington, D.C.
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Bless you!!
Now, I just KNOW you are going to say something witty and brilliant about Maureen's new book. ROFL
ROTFLMAO
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Oh, that's funny.
That ought to be an amusing read.
Looking at the pictures of her I saw something familiar. At first, I couldn't quite put my finger on it. Then I figured it out. It's the same puss I see on the faces of the women still driving around with their Kerry bumper stickers...they all look so angry.
Please remind me...why do we always post the Zeta pics when there's an article about MoDo?
By the by, her new book sounds positively dreadful. I understand the working title during its production was "Don't Try To Sh*t Me, Mr. McGillicuddy!"
What's the next book title for MoDo? How about this: "Is Nair Necessary?"
(Maureen Dowd Writes a New Book, ARE MEN NECESSARY? .......)
I wonder why she has so little success with men. I'm sure with the publishing of this book men will just flock to her in droves.
And who is going to read a book that may be titled: "I have very little success with men. Learn from me!"? Easy: It will be required reading in "Women's Studies" departments all over the US. After all, this book is bound to be hit with the man-hating portion of the population.
That and a turkey baster and she's all set for the evening.
Hey,didn't a house once fall on this chick .... LOL
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ROTFLMAOTRDMF (tears rolling down my face)
What could someone as acidic, ugly and repulsive as she is possibly know about it ? Or is it perhaps abstract imaginings, like her articles ?
Hey! That's giving bourbon drinkers a bad name....
I believe it's becaue she used to date Michael Douglas
MoDo was jilted by Michael Douglas in exchange for CZJ.
He traded up.
"Looking at the pictures of her I saw something familiar... It's the same puss I see on the faces of the women still driving around with their Kerry bumper stickers...they all look so angry."
LOL, you're right! Guess going around totally frustrated all the time takes a toll on the mind and the body.
Are Men Necessary? This from a woman who followed the troll of a self-proclaimed sex addict. Guess she got the old Marauder 2000 with the solar batteries. All kidding aside, this is a woman who writes like she is working for a sorority newsletter. Silly sarcasm is the replacement for humor and the girls always agree that men are creeps for not calling.
"He traded up."
There's the understatement of the week.
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