UNITED STATES
The Guardian (UK)
Amanda Holpuch in New York
@holpuch
Saturday 11 June 2016
To understand Donald Trump’s rise, it is worth considering the emergence of female masturbation courses in China, according to author Frank Browning, whose latest book, The Fate of Gender, was released in the US on Tuesday.
The book, which only gives a brief nod to the presumptive Republican nominee, explores the science behind one of the most prominent movements of our time – the democratization of gender – and the reaction from those in traditional positions of power: men.
“There is a resentment that transfuses western society having to do with this change of a role of authority and power, and Donald Trump responds to that,” Browning told the Guardian in a phone call from his home in France. …
In discussing violence against those repressed groups in predominantly Catholic countries, Browning writes: “The Vatican, of course, regularly denounces any form of domestic violence, but human rights workers argue that it is the underlying teaching of the church in the light of the gender equality movement that continues to fuel what can only be seen as an intensifying gender war.”
The church is also mentioned as a marker for how quickly things have changed – Browning writes that while same-sex couples openly parenting a child 50 years ago could have been imprisoned for child abuse, a priest is more likely to be imprisoned on such charges today, as the clergy sex abuse scandal has shown.
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