Men are at a watershed. In the bedroom and the boardroom, on the sportsfield and the Stock Exchange Floor, women are challenging their dominance and men are on the back foot. Altered Mates is the first book to look comprehensively at what's happening to men in the Nineties. We meet the Born-Again Blokes, the Sackcloth and Ashes Brigade, the Victim Masculinists and other groups in a whole spectrum of men who are responding to the challenges from women. Altered Mates argues that men must face the facts: increasingly, men need women more than women need men. From the intimate experiments men and women make in the bedroom, to the pressures of rapid and relentless economic change, Altered Mates explains why men are being forced to reinvent themselves and how they're coping.The book is indispensible reading for men and women who want to put the gender war in perspective and understand its impact on their everyday lives.