The Complementarity of Women and Men

"This book should be welcomed with shouts of joy. It clarifies a subject regularly, and even willfully misunderstood today, yet absolutely essential for correcting and ameliorating the 'battle of the sexes' and gender ideology. It offers rigorous intellectual argument, empirical science, and artistic illustration of the very good news that men and women are differently gifted but oriented to fruitful collaboration. And this book explores varied disciplines at a high level with language accessible to a wide variety of readers."—Helen Alvaré, Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University

"Are sex differences merely an imposition of culture? Or is there empirical evidence showing that there are important differences grounded in reality? These are the questions that guide the contributors of The Complementarity of Women and Men on an inspiring journey to discover the feminine and the masculine, what unites them and what distinguishes them. Every chapter provides a case for this complementarity from a different perspective: theological, philosophical, artistic, psychological, and scientific. Every chapter shows how the complementarity between man and woman is an encounter that generates life and meaning at all levels. Five great lessons by five great scholars who passionately debate—to use J. Budziszewski's words—about how men and women are 'different in corresponding ways,''complementary opposites—alike in their humanity but different in ways that make them natural partners.'"—Wael Farouq, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan