In Defense of Women, H. L. Mencken
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In Defense of Women

Author: H. L. Mencken

Narrator: Fred Williams

Unabridged: 5 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Published: 04/18/2011

Genre: Social Science

Synopsis

Originally published in 1922, this book considers topics that remain of vital interest to todays readers, including monogamy and polygamy, the double standard, sexual harassment, and declining marriage rates. Written in Menckens characteristic nononsense manner, In Defense of Women crackles with controversy and caustic wit. The truth is that neither sex, without some fertilization by the complementary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor. Man, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too nave and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to sleep by his imagination to be anything above a cavalryman, a theologian, or a bank director. And woman, without some trace of that divine innocence which is masculine, is too harshly the realist for those vast projections of the fancy which lie at the heart of what we call genius. Here, as elsewhere in the universe, the best effects are obtained by a mingling of elements (H. L. Mencken).

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