Word: misogynistic
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...obituary-a woman hater. I certainly was a damned odd one." In fact, Wylie was an early supporter of women's rights. But his description of Mom as "a puerile, rusting, raging creature" did little to dispel the notion that he was indeed a confirmed misogynist. Few facets of society escaped Wylie's wrath over the 50-year span of his literary career. The Princeton-educated iconoclast was a prolific writer of overstated and splenetic books and magazine articles in which he inveighed against everything from preachers to pollution to "pompous slut" politicians. This year, in Sons...
...broad sweep of that argument that renders it vulnerable. Millett is no scientist, and scientists, notably Social Anthropologist Lionel Tiger (see box), are quick to point out imperfections. "She's not looking for the truth, but making a case," says Rutgers Anthropologist Robin Fox. He says he is no misogynist, but, he charges, she's "inventing a new mythology to replace the old one . . . She's playing ducks and drakes with the truth, and in the process doing herself and her cause a disservice." Specifically, Fox says, Millett's theory that gender identity is imposed by society rather than genes...
French export market, too, will reintroduce U.S. readers to a celebrated Gallic misogynist, Henry de Montherlant, through four novels that first earned him his reputation, now bound and translated under a single title (The Girls...
...hero is not a simple misogynist, not a fully accredited human being with but one blank space in his account. Burgess's male characters, with the exception of the cynical betrayer, Rawcliffe, whose death is the most effective episide in the book, are as static and object-like as his women. The characters are exhibits of no more than equal rank with the strange locales and cunning twists of fate Burgess marshals for the reader's diversion...
...Silences. For the past few years, friends and critics alike have waited impatiently for Malraux's own assessment of his career. Last year his first wife, Clara, beat him to the punch by publishing her version of their early years together. "But her picture of the thoroughgoing "misogynist," whose early rebellion had "reserved areas that he could define as it suited him, or according to his own advantage," served largely as a reminder that it was Malraux's version that was really needed...