In Defense of Women

By Mencken, H. L.

Book Id: WPLBN0002954218
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Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	In Defense of Women
Author:	Mencken, H. L.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, Philosophy
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, In Defense of Women
Historic Publication Date:	1918
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago L. Mencke, B. H. (1918). In Defense of Women. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

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In Defense of Women is H. L. Mencken's 1918 book on women and the relationship between the sexes. Some laud the book as progressive while others brand it as reactionary. While Mencken didn't champion women's rights, he described women as wiser in many novel and observable ways, while demeaning average men. According to Mencken's biographer, Fred Hobson: Depending on the position of the reader, he was either a great defender of women's rights or, as a critic labelled him in 1916, 'the greatest misogynist since Schopenhauer','the country's high-priest of woman-haters.' (Summary from wikipedia)

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Philosophy