"In a new book filled with chapters that surprise and amuse, Maureen Dowd explains why getting ready for a date went from glossing and gargling to Paxiling and Googling; why men are in an evolutionary and romantic shame spiral; why women have reeled backward in many ways; why men may be biologically unsuited to hold higher office, given their diva fits and catfights, teary confessions and fashion obsessions; why women are fixated on their looks more than ever, freezing their faces and emotions in an orgy of plasticity that makes the Stepford Wives look authentic; why male politicians and male institutions get tripped up in so much monkey business; why many alpha women, from Martha to Hillary, can have a successful second act only after becoming humiliated victims; and why the new definition of Having It All is less about empowerment and equality than about flirting and getting rescued, downshifting from "You go, girl!" to "You go lie down, girl."" "In addition, Dowd, who has reported on historic moments on the sexual battlefield, from Geraldine Ferraro's vice-presidential run to the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas heatings to Hillary Rodham Clinton's reign as copresident, explores not only how many of these shining feminist triumphs backfired on women but also how Hillary, a feminist icon busy plotting her campaign to be the first woman president, delivered the final blow to female solidarity herself."--BOOK JACKET.

1. How to set your bear trap in the mink department of Bergdorf's 2. Why Pandora's box is no tender trap 3. Whipping the pants off the women who wear them 4. Why the well-hung Y is wilting, even as the X is excelling 5. Of pussycats, booty calls, road beef and slump busters

6. The drag of going stag 7. Whence the wince? 8. How green is my valley of the dolls 9. How Hillary smushed cupcakes and filleted feminism.