Recommended books

The following books will be of interest to anyone with an interest in exploring gender-related issues, including feminism. The list is maintained by the British political party Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them). Please email Elizabeth Hobson, party leader, if you know of any books which might usefully be added to the list (elizabeth@j4mb.org.uk).

Adams, Steven (2010), Women First, Men Last (Kindle).

Aitken, Robert (2018), The Noble Liar: How and Why the BBC Distorts the News to Promote a Liberal Agenda (Biteback Publishing).

Anderson, Eric, and Magrath, Rory (2019), Men and Masculinities (Abingdon: Routledge).

Baron-Cohen, Simon (2004), The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain (London: Penguin).

Barrett, Louise, and Dunbar, Robin, and Lycett, John (2002), Human Evolutionary Psychology (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave).

Baskerville, Stephen (2007), Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family (Cumberland House Publishing).

Baskerville, Stephen (2017), The New Politics of Sex: The Sexual Revolution, Civil Liberties, and the Growth of Governmental Power (Angelico Press)

Baumeister, Roy (2010), Is There Anything Good About Men? How Cultures Flourish by Exploiting Men (Kindle).

Bax, Ernest Belfort (1913), The Fraud of Feminism – downloadable at no cost through this link.

Benatar, David (2012), The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys (John Wiley & Sons).

Bloomfield, Janet (2016), FEMINISN’T: A collection of blog posts (CreateSpace).

Breitbart, Andrew (2011), Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World (New York: Grand Central Publishing).

Brizendine, Louann (2007), The Female Brain (London: Bantam Press).

Brooks-Gordon, Belinda (2006), The Price of Sex: Prostitution, Policy and Society (Willan).

Brown, Belinda (2003), The Private Revolution: Women in the Polish Underground Movement (Hera Trust).

Browne, Anthony (2006), The Retreat of Reason: Political Correctness and the Corruption of Public Debate in Modern Britain (London: Civitas).

Buchanan, Mike (2015), 2015 General Election Manifesto (London: LPS publishing).

Buchanan, Mike (2010), Buchanan’s Dictionary of Quotations for Right-Minded People  (London: LPS publishing).

Buchanan, Mike (2010), David and Goliatha: David Cameron – heir to Harman? (London: LPS publishing).

Buchanan, Mike (paperback 2016, ebook 2017), Feminism: The Ugly Truth (London: LPS publishing).

Buchanan, Mike (2011), The Glass Ceiling Delusion: the real reasons more women don’t reach senior positions (London: LPS publishing).

Buchanan, Mike (2010), The Joy of Self-Publishing (London: LPS publishing).

Buchanan, Mike (2009), The Marriage Delusion: The fraud of the rings? (London: LPS publishing).

Buchanan, Mike (2008), Two Men in a Car (A Businessman, a Chauffeur, and Their Holidays in France) (London: LPS publishing).

Casey, Gerard (2020), After #MeToo: Feminism, Patriarchy, Toxic Masculinity and Sundry Cultural Delights (Societas).

Cleary, Mary T (2015), That Bitch: protect yourself against women with malicious intent (Centre Publishing).

Collins, William (2019), The Empathy Gap: Male Disadvantages and the Mechanisms of Their Neglect (London: LPS publishing).

Cook, Philip W (2009), Abused Men: The Hidden Side of Domestic Violence (USA: Praeger).

Cook, Philip W, and Hodo, Tammy L (2013) When Women Sexually Assault Men: The Hidden Side of Rape, Harassment, and Sexual Assault (USA: Praeger).

Cooper, Joel (2007), Cognitive Dissonance: Fifty Years of a Classic Theory (London: Sage Publications).

Crawford, Edith (2006), Truth and Prejudice: Men’s Experiences of Domestic Violence (AuthorHouse).

Creveld, Martin van (2013), The Privileged Sex (CreateSpace).

Cumming, Alan (2013), May the Foreskin be With You: why circumcision makes no sense, and what you can do about it (Magnus Books).

Dench, Geoff (1998), Transforming Men: Changing Patterns of Dependency and Dominance in Gender Relations (Transaction Publishers).

Elam, Paul (2019), Men. Women. Relationships. Surviving the Plague of Toxic Masculinity.

Elam, Paul, and Palmatier, Tara (2015), Say Goodbye to Crazy: How to Get Rid of His Crazy Ex and Restore Sanity to Your Life (CreateSpace).

Elliott, Michele (1994), Female Sexual Abuse of Children (Guilford Press).

Farrell, Warren (1993), The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are The Disposable Sex (Simon & Schuster).

Farrell, Warren, and Gray, John (2018), The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It (BenBella Books).

Farrell, Warren (2005), Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind The Pay Gap And What Women Can Do About It (Amacom).

Fiamengo, Janice (2017), Sons of Feminism: Men Have Their Say (Little Nightingale Press).

Freedman, Estelle (2013), Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation (Harvard University Press).

Frost, Jack (2007), The Gulag of the Family Courts (Lulu Enterprises).

Golden, Tom (2000), Swallowed by a Snake: The Gift of the Masculine Side of Healing (GH Publishing).

Golden, Tom (2014), The Way Men Heal (GH Publishing).

Golden, Tom (2016), Helping Mothers be Closer to Their Sons: Understanding the unique world of boys (GH Publishing).

Goldman, Ronald (1997), Circumcision: The Hidden Trauma (Vanguard Publications).

Goldman, Ronald (1997), Questioning Circumcision: A Jewish Perspective (Vanguard Publications).

Graglia, F Carolyn (1998), Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism (Spence Publishing).

Haidt, Jonathan, and Lukianoff, Greg, (2018), The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure (Allen Lane).

Haidt, Jonathan, (2013), The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (Penguin).

Hakim, Catherine (2000), Work-Lifestyle Choices in the 21st Century: Preference Theory (Oxford University Press).

Hanna, Fred, and Unger, Bill, et al., The Perfect Smoke: Gourmet Pipe Smoking for Relaxation and Reflection (Kindle).

Hardwick, Sean (2018), Mental Health Behind the Mask (Kindle).

Harris, Mark (2007), Family Court HELL (Pen Press Publishers).

Hitchens, Peter (2009), How British Politics Lost Its Way (London, New York: Continuum Publishing).

Hitchens, Peter (2010), The Cameron Delusion (London, New York: Continuum Publishing).

(The Cameron Delusion is an updated edition of The Broken Compass).

Hontree, Stuart (2018), 101 Dirty Tricks of Secret Courts: Private Family Law (CreateSpace).

Hontree, Stuart (2017), Parental Alienation, Attachment and Corrupt Law (CreateSpace).

Hulme, Roland (2015), Please Don’t Circumcise Your Baby Boy: The Inarguable Case Against Infant Male Circumcision (Kindle).

James, John (2018), From The Darkness: A True Story (CreateSpace).

James, Oliver (1998), Britain on the Couch: why we are unhappier than we were in the 1950s – despite being richer. A treatment for the low-serotonin society (London: Arrow).

Johnson, Boris (2014), The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History (Hodder and Stoughton).

Jones, January (2008), Thou Shalt Not Whine: The Eleventh Commandment (Beaufort Books).

Kelly, Irene (2015), Sins of the Mother (Pan).

Kengor, Paul (2016), Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left Has Sabotaged Family and Marriage (WND Books).

Kengor, Paul (2020), The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism’s Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration (TAN Books).

Langford, Nick (2014), An Exercise in Utter Futility: whatever happened to family justice? (Nick Langford).

Lenney, Brian (2018), Why is Feminism So Silly? A Guide for Kids.

Lewis, Bob (2017), The Feminist Lie: It Was Never About Equality (CreateSpace).

Lloyd, Peter (2014), Stand by Your Manhood: A Game-changer for Modern Men (London: Biteback Publishing).

Love, Patricia, and Stosny, Steven (2007), How To Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It (Three Rivers Press).

Lye, Matthew (2016), The New Gay Liberation: Escaping the Fag End of Feminism (Zeta Press).

Lyndon, Neil (1992), No More Sex War: The Failures of Feminism (Sinclair-Stevenson).

(We particularly recommend the following title by Neil Lyndon, which contains the full and uncensored text of No More Sex War.)

Lyndon, Neil (2014), Sexual Impolitics: Heresies on sex, gender and feminism (Kindle).

Marotta, Brendon (2020), The Intactivist Guidebook: How to win the game of intactivism and end circumcision.

Masterson, Dick (2008), Men Are Better Than Women (New York: Simon & Schuster).

McCain, Robert Stacy (2015), Sex Trouble: Essays on Radical Feminism and the War Against Human Nature (CreateSpace).

McElroy, Wendy (2016), Rape Culture Hysteria: Fixing the Damage Done to Men and Women (CreateSpace).

Moir, Anne, and Moir, Bill (1998), Why Men Don’t Iron: The Real Science of Gender Studies (London: HarperCollins).

Moore, Charles (2013), Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography. Volume One – Not  for Turning (London: Allen Lane).

Moore, Charles (2016), Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography. Volume Two – Everything She Wants (Penguin)

Moore, E.M. (2008), A Call for InJustice: Domestic Violence Against Men (AuthorHouse).

Moran, Jim (1969), Why Men Shouldn’t Marry (New York: Lyle Stuart, Inc.)

Moxon, Steve (2008), The Woman Racket (Exeter: Imprint Academic).

Murray, Charles (2020), Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class (Twelve).

Nathanson, Paul, and Katherine K Young (2002), Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of Contempt for Men in Popular Culture (Montreal / Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press).

Nathanson, Paul, and Katherine K Young (2006), Legalizing Misandry: From Public Shame to Systemic Discrimination Against Men (Montreal / Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press).

Nathanson, Paul, and Katherine K Young (2009), Sanctifying Misandry: Goddess Ideology and the Fall of Man (Montreal / Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press).

Niceguy and Bobby N (2018), Land of the Losers (Kindle)

O’Beirne, Kate (2005), Women Who Make The World Worse (New York: Sentinel HC).

O’Pie, Swayne (2011), Why Britain Hates Men: Exposing Feminism (Bath: The Men’s Press). The book is available in ebook editions, and outside the UK in a paperback edition, with the title Exposing Feminism: The Thirty Years’ War Against Men (2012) (London: LPS publishing).

Ofshe, Richard, and Watters, Ethan (1995), Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy and Sexual Hysteria (Andre Deutsch).

Parker, Kathleen (2010), Save the Males: Why Men Matter, Why Women Should Care (Random House).

Parker Hall, Sue (2008), Anger, Rage and Relationship: An Empathic Approach to Anger Management (Routledge).

Patai, Daphne (1998), Heterophobia: Sexual Harassment and the Future of Feminism (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield).

Patai, Daphne, and Koertge, Noretta (2003), Professing Feminism (Plymouth: Lexington Books).

Pinker, Steven (2003), The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (London: Penguin).

Pinker, Susan (2008), The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women, and the Real Gender Gap (New York: Scribner).

Pizzey, Erin, and Shapiro, Jeff (1982), Prone to Violence (London: Hamlyn Publishers).

Pizzey, Erin (1983), Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear (London: Penguin).

Pizzey, Erin (2011), This Way to the Revolution: A Memoir (London: Peter Owen Publishers).

Purdy, Herbert (2016), Their Angry Creed: The shocking history of feminism, and how it is destroying our way of life (London: LPS publishing).

Saunders, Peter (2011), The Rise of the Equalities Industry (London: Civitas).

Sax, Leonard (2006), Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need To Know About The Emerging Science Of Sex Differences (New York: Three Rivers Press).

Schlafly, Phyllis (2003), Feminist Fantasies (Spence Publishing).

Sedgwick, David (2018), BBC: Brainwashing Britain?: How and why the BBC controls your mind (Sandgrounder)

Servadio, Anthony (2015), How to Grow and Master Your Relationships: Thirteen Steps for Men (Archway Publishing)

Shackleton, David A (2018), Daughters of Feminism: Women Supporting Men’s Equality (Take2Now)

Shapiro, Ben (2010), Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America’s Youth (Thomas Nelson)

Shapiro, Ben (2011), Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV (HarperCollins)

Shapiro, Ben (2013), Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans (Threshold Editions)

Shapiro, Ben (2014), How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument (David Horowitz Freedom Center)

Smith, Helen (2013), Men on Strike: Why Men are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream, and Why it Matters (USA: Encounter Books).

Snowdon, Christopher (2010), The Spirit Level Delusion: Fact-checking the Left’s new theory of everything (London: Democracy Institute).

Sommers, Christina Hoff (1994), Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women (New York: Simon & Schuster).

Sommers, Christina Hoff (2001), The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men (New York: Simon & Schuster).

Stolba, Christine (2002), Lying in a Room of One’s Own: How Women’s Studies Textbooks Miseducate Students (Independent Women’s Forum). Free to download here.

Swaab, Dick (2014), We Are Our Brains: From the Womb to Alzheimer’s (Allen Lane).

Tate, JP (2014), Feminism is Sexism (Kindle).

Thorburn, Gordon (2002), Men and Sheds (New Holland Publishers).

Venker, Suzanne, and Schlafly, Phyllis (2011), The Flipside of Feminism – What Conservative Women Know, And Men Can’t Say (Washington: WND Books).

Venker, Suzanne (2013), How to Choose a Husband: And Make Peace with Marriage (Washington: WND Books)

Venker, Suzanne (2013), The War on Men (Kindle)

Vilar, Esther (2008), The Manipulated Man (Germany: C Bertelsman Verlag) – this is the third edition of a remarkable book first published in 1971.

Wadham, Lucy (2009), The Secret Life of France (London: Faber & Faber).

Wald, Rebecca, and Braver Moss, Lisa (2014), Celebrating Brit Shalom (Notim Press).

Watson, Lindsay R. (2014), Unspeakable Mutilations: Circumcised Men Speak Out (CreateSpace).

Webb, Simon (2020), Suffragette Fascists: Emmeline Pankhurst and Her Right-Wing Followers (Pen and Sword History).

Weldon, Fay (2006), What Makes Women Happy (London: HarperCollins).

Weissman, Myrna, and Paykel, E.S. (1974), Depressed Woman: Study of Social Relationships (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

Williams, Joanna (2017), Women vs Feminism: Why We All Need Liberating from the Gender Wars (Bingley: Emerald Publishing Ltd.)

Wright, Peter, and Elam, Paul (2014), Go Your Own Way: Understanding MGTOW (AVFM Press).

Wright, Peter (2014), Gynocentrism: From Feudalism to the Modern Disney Princess

Wright, Peter (2017), Men and Disability: A male-centered approach

Wright, Peter (2017), A Brief History of The Men’s Rights Movement: From 1856 to the present

Wright, Peter, and Elam, Paul (2017), Red Pill Psychology: Psychology for men in a gynocentric world

Wright, Peter (2018), Feminism: And The Creation of a Female Aristocracy (Academic Century Press)

Wright, Peter, and Elam, Paul (2019), Chivalry: A Gynocentric Tradition

Zubaty, Rich (1994), Surviving the Feminization of America: How to Keep Women From Ruining Your Life (Zubaty Publishing).

Zubaty, Rich (2001), What Men Know That Women Don’t: How to Love Women Without Losing Your Soul (virtualbookworm.com Publishing).