

Masking her real intentions and motives in the guise of romantic love.

Controlling men by the judicious use of praise, sex, and emotional blackmail once they have been lured.Luring men with sex, which she referred to as the "periodic use of a woman's vagina," and other seduction strategies.Some of the strategies described in her book are: In it, she claims that women are not oppressed by men, but rather control men in a relationship that is to their advantage but which most men are not aware of. One of Vilar's most popular books is titled The Manipulated Man, which she called part of a study on "man's delight in nonfreedom". Concerning the divorce she stated, "I didn't break up with the man, just with marriage as an institution." Work The Manipulated Man (1971) The marriage ended in divorce but they had a son, Martin, in 1964. Įsther married the German author Klaus Wagn in 1961. She worked as a doctor in a Bavarian hospital for a year, and has also worked as a translator, saleswoman, assembly-line worker in a thermometer factory, shoe model, and secretary. She studied medicine at the University of Buenos Aires, and in 1960 went to West Germany on scholarship to continue her studies in psychology and sociology. They separated when she was three years old. 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. She trained and practised as a medical doctor before establishing herself as an author. Esther Margareta Vilar (born Esther Margareta Katzen, September 16, 1935) is an Argentine- German writer.
