The five essays that make up Why do some men hate women? have been written over the course of more than half a century of the career of writer Vivian Gornick (Bronx, New York, 1935). An illustrated New Yorker, chronicler of intimacy and nonagenarian feminist with clear references such as Natalia Ginzburg, the author believes that the only way for romantic love to succeed is to accept the other person in their entirety, beyond any sexual potential they may have. The choice of texts that make up Why do some men hate women? explores the lives and artistic careers of writers such as Joan Didion, Paula Fox or Margaret Drabble, and also writers such as Henry Miller, Philip Roth, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Saul Bellow, and Norman Mailer, staunch misogynists. In parallel, Gornick reflects on 1970s feminism in the United States, its connection to literary matters, the complex task of making a name for oneself in the intellectual field of that time, friendship between women, the art of writing stories, and letter writing.