Boteach, a rabbi and father of five daughters, is not sure which phenomenon to be more anguished by: the growing misogyny in American culture, or how little women seem to care. His wakeup manifesto outlines four female archetypes that have saturated popular culture--the brainless bimbo, the greedy gold-digger, the publicity-seeking prostitute, and the catty witch. "Here we are," he writes, "forty years after the women's liberation movement; women think they are freer than ever, when in reality the past few decades have produced a monolithic and degrading depiction of women as the carnal manifestations of male fantasy. " His solution--putting women on a kind of pedestal of respect--may make some feminist readers uncomfortable; but, he argues, "in a world without ladies, there cannot be gentlemen. "