Bibliograph

In defense of women

Type

Label

In defense of women

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

In defense of women

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Summary

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Cynical quips like "Marriage: the end of hope" and "Wife: a former sweetheart" led critics to label H. L. Mencken "the country's high priest of woman-haters." Needless to say, his publication of In Defense of Women must have come as quite a shock. Here, Mencken argues that women possess a "superior intelligence" and are "the supreme realists of the race." Man, by contrast, is a helpless romantic: "without a woman to rule him and to think for him, he is a truly lamentable spectacle."

Target audience

adult

Classification