Misogynies

Joan Smith

• Publisher: The Westbourne Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781908906182
• eBook ISBN:
  9781908906199
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Feminism & Feminist Theory
• Index: Social Sciences

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. A feminist classic, Smith's exploration of fear and hatred of women resonates to this day.

NOTES

DOUBTING THOMAS

1 Spectator, 23 November 1991

2 Sunday Telegraph, 20 October 1991

3 People, 11 November 1991

4 ‘Taking Sides Against Ourselves,’ The New York Times Magazine, 17 November 1991. ‘Jungle fever,’ according to Bray, is a code term, taken from the Spike Lee film of that name, for a black man’s desire to sleep with a white woman—Judge Thomas’s second wife, Virginia Lamp Thomas, is white. Bray’s article is an eloquent account of the schism in the black community over the allegations against Judge Thomas and an impassioned defence of Professor Hill.

5 Reported in the New York Times, 15 October 1991

6 Independent magazine, 26 October 1991

7 Independent on Sunday, 20 October 1991

8 New York Times, 15 October 1991

9 Newsweek, 21 October 1991

10 ‘Taking Sides Against Ourselves,’ as quoted above.

11 New York Times, 16 October 1991

M’LEARNED FRIENDS

1 Information taken from report in the Daily Telegraph, 4 March 1988.

2 Report in the Independent, 13 January 1988.

3 Report in the Hackney Gazette, 21 March 1986.

4 Report in the Sunday Times, 12 December 1982.

5 Article in Time Out, issue 595, 15-21 January 1982.

6 Report in the Daily Telegraph, 14 March 1986.

7 Much of the information about the Boyce case comes from Maureen Cleave’s excellent article in the London Standard, ‘Epitaph for Christobel’, 6 January 1986. Additional material is taken from reports in The Times, 3 and 10 October 1985.

8 Information on the Robb case from reports in the Guardian, Independent, and Daily Telegraph, 9 January 1988.

9 An edited version of the summing-up appeared in the Daily Telegraph, 24 July 1987.

TOUCH ME

1 Sunday World, 1 June 1986.

2 Daily Girls No. 5, published by Bunch Publishers Ltd, 14 Rathbone Place, London WIP IDE.

3 News of the World, 7 February 1988.

4 Daily Telegraph, 13 March 1986.

HE KNOWS HE CAN MAKE MONEY OUT OF YOU

1 Colin Wilson, Order of Assassins: The Psychology of Murder, Panther, 1975, p. 71.

2 Ibid., p. 72.

3 Reported in John Russell Taylor, Hitch, Abacus, 1981, p. 238.

4 Interview with Val Henness...

Table of contents

• 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