This is honestly one of the turn offs of reading mid-century literature. I don’t think Baldwin was a misogynist himself (or at least I don’t know about it) but it was such an enormous part of mid-century culture that it’s in virtually every book from the period not written by women. And frankly probably many of those too, if they’re writing about the culture they’re living in. It’s similar to how if you decide to read boys’ literature from the 1890s, you’re absolutely going to encounter fairly extreme racism and imperialism.