The Manipulated Man
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.
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The Manipulated Man
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.
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The Manipulated Man

The Manipulated Man

by Esther Vilar
The Manipulated Man

The Manipulated Man

by Esther Vilar

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781905177172
Publisher: Seven Fires
Publication date: 01/04/2008
Edition description: 3rd Edition
Pages: 156
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Esther Vilar was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied medicine and sociology before becoming a writer. She followed the world-wide success of The Manipulated Man with two more books about the relationship between the sexes, The Polygamous Sex and The End of Manipulation, the novels The Mosquito and The Mathematics of Nina Gluckstein and numerous plays, including The American Popess and Speer. Her latest play is Jealousy.She lives in Barcelona and London.

Table of 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 femininityThe business world as a hunting ground
The "emancipated" female
Women's liberation
What is love?
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