On the contrary : essays by men and women

What every woman should know about men / Alan Alda

What is man? / Esther Vilar

The human-not-quite-human / Dorothy Sayers

Some like the cold / Ring Lardner

Prelude to love

three letters / Eldridge Cleaver

Dashiel Hammett / Lillian Hellman

Friendship / C.S. Lewis

Friendship, feminism, and betrayal / Susan Lee

Good souls / Dorothy Parker

The good sort of woman / Samuel Johnson

Young men and elderly men / Aristotle

Introduction from The coming of age / Simone de Beauvoir

A few words about breasts / Nora Ephron

Afternoon of an American boy / E.B. White

I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen

Let your kids alone / Robert Paul Smith

The double standard of aging / Susan Sontag

Commencement address : what you will be / Milton Mayer

Education / H.L. Mencken

One-year-old scholars / Lissa Rotundo