I Hate Men

By Pauline Harmange

Book Overview

The feminist book they tried to ban in France

Women, especially feminists and lesbians, have long been accused of hating men. Our instinct is to deny it at all costs. (After all, women have been burnt at the stake for admitting to less.)

But what if mistrusting men, disliking men - and yes, maybe even hating men - is, in fact, a useful response to sexism? What if such a response offers a way out of oppression, a means of resistance? What if it even offers a path to joy, solidarity and sisterhood?

In this sparkling essay, as mischievous and provocative as it is urgent and serious, Pauline Harmange interrogates modern attitudes to feminism and makes a rallying cry for women to find a greater love for each other - and themselves.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0008457581
• ISBN13: 9780008457587
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.6" x 7.2"

Customer Reviews

A great eye opener if you are a man

The main point of this essay is the mistrust of men. If men abuse their position and authority in our patriarchal culture and abuse women instead of support their causes while respecting them platonically, and they haven't done that over time but instead created their male spaces with comradery while abusing them intellectually and emotionally and physically then the author is right and we should not trust men, even in my case being a man, when is it ever good to trust man when at best they objectify women treating them as objects instead of good friends. The mistrust the author asks men to consider of their own gender is mutual. And society needs a moral overhaul and more feminist thought. Although a simple read the author presents a good introduction to hating male culture that is more like hating the deviant and maladaptive nature of men. She presents a good starting point for any decent human being to question how humans have treated eachother in society and I can't wait for her next book cause she is awesome