Culture | Gender politics
Now is not a good time to be a man

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The End of Men: And the Rise of Women. By Hanna Rosin. Riverhead; 310 pages; $27.95. To be published in Britain in October; £12.99. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “Female muscle”

From the September 8th 2012 edition
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