The new icons - Madonna, Princess Di, Roseanne - appear to be all-powerful, but what is really going on? Can Princess Diana ever be anything but the Queen of Broken Hearts? Is there such a thing as a female serial killer? Why are women urged to have children when they don't want them? Are single mothers to blame for truancy and teenage crime? What exactly was Linda Fiorentino up to in THE LAST SEDUCTION? And why can't sex symbols like Madonna have sex? These questions and many more, lie at the heart of Joan Smith's provocative new enquiry into the differences between men and women. In a series of essays on female icons like the Princess of Wales and Naomi Campbell as well as ogres like Rosemary West, Smith demonstrates the extent to which our judgements are influenced by unconcious ideas about gender. In doing so, her book tackles a fundamental but so far barely examined possibility- that the idea of difference is far more important than its reality. MISOGYNIES has remained in print since publication in 1989 and has become a key study of its subject. DIFFERENT FOR GIRLS is a MISOGYNIES for the late 90s, forcing us to ask new questions and see new truths.
- ISBN10 070116512X
- ISBN13 9780701165123
- Publish Date 4 September 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 November 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Chatto & Windus
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 192
- Language English