Thanks to Fraters Libertas for this:

any recommendations of what book i should buy a man who doesn't know very much about feminism and the oppression of women, etc...but i want to help him become more familiar with these facts in a nonthreatening way? kind of a "here are the ways in which women are oppressed throughout the world" and "here are some things you can do about it, as a man" (at least in opening up his thinking?)

If you observe Christmas for the sake of worshipping Jesus Christ, then this is indirectly something to keep in mind of this sacred day of celebration. However, we shouldn't stop with women who are oppressed. The spirit of Christianity is the spirit of the chains of bondage being broken by God who became human specifically to liberate us from tyranny. That is why I say that if you truly care about women are oppressed around the world, you have to care about the people who are oppressed. Oppression, like hatred and cancer, must be dealt with in a universal manner otherwise it just retreats to a corner until it can strike out and retake what it has lost.

There are many good charities that you can give to that will help people out around the world, but if you want to give to a charity that fights oppression on the home front, the Institute for Justice is a damn good one. Even though they lost the case, they were the ones who fought the good fight in cases like Kelo v. New London which was precisely the sort of case that feminists should be calling true oppression; a woman got her home taken from her to be sold off for cheap to a land developer by her local government. If that is not a true example of a woman being oppressed, then I don't know what is because it was a clear cut message saying: "in New London, Conn. you have no property rights." So while the "enlightened" government of New London, Conn. might not regard women as property, they have been effectively reduced back to the dark ages of women not being able to truly own their own property.

Of course, I have to admit, that if a woman bought me a book like this except as a joke or as an interesting insight into the minds of academic feminists, I'd be quite scared. There's nothing like being force-fed propaganda of any sort via a Christmas "present" to make you want to gag and run for the hills. With the sheer volume of oppression that goes on in the world today, oppression that affects both genders even if a bit disproportionately, I find it hard to take seriously someone who wants to single out just women. The most obvious example is that women are often the perpetrators of the very female circumcision that is justly despised in the West. It's a very complex world, and to draw simple lines like "women are oppressed" whittles away at the true victims who can be from any category and lets many of the victimizers, such as the older women who force their daughters to be circumcised, get away with their crimes using usually very poor excuses.