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Argentine writer

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Esther Margareta Vilar is an Argentine-German writer. She trained and practised as a medical doctor before establishing herself as an author.

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If a young man gets married, starts a family, and spends the rest of his life working at a soul-destroying job, he is held up as an example of virtue and responsibility.

The Manipulated Man (1971)

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said · 1971
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Woman's greatest ideal is a life without work or responsibility - yet who leads such a life but a child?

The Manipulated Man (1971)

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Esther Margareta Vilar is an Argentine-German writer. She trained and practised as a medical doctor before establishing herself as an author. She is best known for her 1971 book The Manipulated Man and its various follow-ups, which argue that, contrary to common feminist and women's rights rhetoric, women in industrialized cultures are not oppressed, but rather exploit a well-established system of manipulating men.

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Born 1935 · age 91
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