Playboy After Hours

August, 1971

Although the event was billed as "A Dialog on Women's Liberation," New York's cultural elite and hundreds more in sold-out Town Hall one recent evening thirsted for more than a dialog. It was to be Norman Mailer vs. The Amazons. Mailer, long castigated by all sectors of fem lib as a sexist pig, had compounded his chauvinist sins with a long article, "The Prisoner of Sex," in Harper's. And since he was to be the chef-d'oeuvre of this night of the long knives, there had for wee...