Article: Dowd lets fly against men and women, right and left.(Daily Break)

ARE MEN NECESSARY?

MAUREEN DOWD

Putnam. 338 pp. $25.95.

BY SUSAN REIMER

The Baltimore Sun

READING "Are Men Necessary?" by New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd is like being trapped in the collected episodes of "Sex and the City." Only you have to bring your own cosmopolitan.

Dowd establishes this context when, early in her new book on the fate of feminism, she describes herself in contrast with the black-sweater-and-Birkenstock feminists of her college days:

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