Full Description
Esther Vilar's classic polemic about the relationship between the sexes caused a sensation on its first publication. In her introduction to this revised edition, Vilar maintains that very little has changed. A man is a human being who works, while a woman chooses to let a man provide for her and her children in return for carefully dispensed praise and sex. Vilar's perceptive, thought-provoking and often very funny look at the battle between the sexes has earned her severe criticism and even death threats. But Vilar's intention is not misogynous: she maintains that only if women and men look at their place in society with honesty, will there be any hope for change.
Contents
Author's introduction
The slave's happiness
What is man?
What is woman?
A woman's horizon
The fair sex
The universe is male
Her stupidity makes woman divine
Breaking them in
Manipulation by means of self-abasement
A dictionary
Women have no feelings
Sex as reward
The female libido
Manipulation through bluff
Commercialised prayers
Self-conditioning
Children as hostages
Women's vices
The mask of femininity
The business world as a hunting ground
The "emancipated" female
Women's liberation
What is love?
