The public woman
By: Joan Smith
Publisher: Westbourne Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781908906045
Subjects: Sex discrimination against women; Women; Abuse of; Prostitution; Misogyny; Feminism
Description: How are women supposed to make sense of the world today? Women have never had more freedom - yet questions of inequality persist from the bedroom to the boardroom. A quarter of a century after the publication of her seminal text, Misogynies, Joan Smith looks at what women have achieved - and the price they've paid for it.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Display. Britain's got narcissism; title: Polar disorder; title: Performance; title: Vagina cantata; title: Conformit. Queen Wag; title: Calm down, dear; title: Crystal's story; title: Keeper of the flame; title: Veiled messages; title: Coercion. Possession; title: 'Tis pity she's a whore; title: Buying power; title: Witches of Perugia; title: Conclusion: Women's rights are human rights; title: Declaration of the Rights of Women.