In Defense of Women: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

In Defense of Women, credited to H.L Mencken, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of In Defense of Women, by H.L. Mencken. Read by ML Cohen. In Defense of Women is H. L. Mencken's 1918 book on women and the relationship between the sexes. Some laud the book as progressive while others brand it as reactionary. While Mencken didn't champion women's rights, he described women as wiser in many novel and observable ways, while demeaning average men. According to Mencken's biographer, Fred Hobson: Depending on the position of the reader, he was either a great defender of women's rights or, as a critic labelled him in 1916, 'the greatest misogynist since Schopenhauer','the country's high-priest of woman-haters.' (Summary from wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: In Defense of Women
• Author credits: H.L Mencken
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 4:20:40

Catalogue topics

• philosophy
• mencken

Track guide

1. 00 Introduction — 14:43
2. 01 The Feminine Mind — 24:15
3. 02 The War Between the Sexes (Part 1) — 23:44
4. 03 The War Between the Sexes (Part 2) — 23:27
5. 04 Marriage, Part 1 — 24:32
6. 05 Marriage, Part 2 — 25:47
7. 06 Marriage, Part 3 — 22:12
8. 07 Woman Suffrage, Part 1 — 21:46
9. 08 Woman Suffrage, Part 2 — 19:06
10. 09 Woman Suffrage, Part 3 — 24:12
11. 10 The New Age, Part 1 — 14:32
12. 11 The New Age, Part 2 — 22:27

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