The manipulated man
By: Esther Vilar
Publisher: Pinter & Martin; Pinter & Martin Limited
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9781905177172
Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Social role; Sex role; Men; Social conditions; Women; Relations entre hommes et femmes; Rôle social; Rôle selon le sexe; Hommes; Conditions sociales; Femmes
Work titles: Dressierte Mann
Description: Esther Vilar's classic polemic about the relationship between the sexes caused a sensation on its first publication. In her introduc tion 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.
Notes: Translation of: Der dressierte Mann.
Table of contents: title: &#x2021;a The slave's happiness; title: What is man?; title: What is woman?; title: A woman's horizon; title: The fair sex; title: The universe is male; title: Her stupidity makes woman divine; title: Breaking them in; title: Manipulation by means of self-abasement; title: A dictionary; title: Woman have no feelings; title: Sex as reward; title: The female libido; title: Manipulation through bluff; title: Commercialized prayers; title: Self-conditioning; title: Children as hostages; title: Women's vices; title: The mask of femininity; title: The business world as a hunting ground; title: The 'emancipated' female; title: Women's liberation; title: What is love?