Esther vilar biography

Argentine-German writer (born 1935)

Esther Margareta Vilar (born Esther Margareta Katzen, September 16, 1935)^[1] 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.

Esther vilar biography

Biography

Vilar's parents were German emigrants. They separated when she was three years old.

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.

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.^[2]

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