This book is a practical and straightforward treatment of the role that men are to have in their families. Grounded in Scripture, Phillips shows us that we do in fact have an owner's manual.
Podles traces the feminization of faith in the West to a move taken by Bernard of Clairvaux. Fathers must function within the church—although the church has made this difficult.
Douglas describes how our culture was feminized long before 20th-century feminism. Douglas taught me how a lot of gender "traditionalism" in the American church is little more than an early variant of feminism.
Gilder taught me the invaluable lesson that the dominance of men is inescapable. The only choice is whether our institutions, chiefly marriage, will channel their aggressive natures in constructive directions.