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How a Little Book About Hating Men Sparked a Firestorm in France

HAD ENOUGH

The young French writer Pauline Harmange proudly embraces misandry and makes a splash beyond the literary scene.

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Pauline Harmange has been a full-time writer for only a year. The 26-year-old French activist was approached, in 2019, by a small publisher to expand upon a blog post she’d written about feminist burnout: the deep exhaustion that stems from fighting for gender equality yet seeing no concrete results.

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