Ebook: Misogynies

Cover; Title; Contents; Preface to the 2013 Edition; Introduction; Doubting Thomas; M'Learned Friends; Touch Me; He Knows He Can Make Money Out of You; Hype, Hype, Hooray; The Frog Princess; Immaculate Misconceptions; Patum Peperium; Women in Togas; Men Only; Czech Mate; Gentlemen Prefer Dead Blondes; Holocaust Girls; A Visit from the Gas Man; Crawling from the Wreckage; Prima Donna; There's Only One Yorkshire Ripper; Postscript: Boys Will Be Boys?; Notes; Copyright.;Misogynies is one of the most celebrated feminist texts by a British author. First published in 1989, it created shock waves with its analyses of history, literature and popular culture. Joan Smith drew on her own experience as one of the few women reporting the Yorkshire Ripper murders and looked at novels, slasher movies, Page Three and Princess Diana, teasing out the attitudes that brought them together.