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Misogynies (Paperback)
Joan Smith
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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.
This volume examines the policies and initiatives now underway on both sides of the Atlantic to revitalize the poorest urban neighborhoods. With contributors from the US, France, and the UK, the volume explains the range of community building programs and explores critical issues such as the role of partnerships and the importance of race and gender in urban regeneration.
Our poorest urban neighbourhoods experience economic and social
difficulties that uniquely affect the lives of those who live
there. This volume examines the policies and initiatives now
underway on both sides of the Atlantic to revitalize those areas.
With contributors from the US, France and the UK the volume
explains the nature of specific community building programmes and
explores critical issues such as the role of partnerships and the
importance of race and gender in urban regeneration.
This book, first published in 1992, seeks an explanation of the
pattern of sharp discrepancy of wage levels across the
world-economy for work of comparable productivity. It explores how
far such differences can be explained by the different structures
of households as 'income-pooling units', examining three key
variables: location in the core or periphery of the world-economy;
periods of expansion versus periods of contraction in the
world-economy; and secular transformation over time. The authors
argue that both the boundaries of households and their sources of
income are molded by the changing patterns of the world-economy,
but are also modes of defense against its pressures. Drawing
empirical data from eight local regions in three different zones -
the United States, Mexico and southern Africa - this book presents
a systematic and original approach to the intimate link between the
micro-structures of households and the structures of the capitalist
world-economy at a global level.
This book, first published in 1992, seeks an explanation of the
pattern of sharp discrepancy of wage levels across the
world-economy for work of comparable productivity. It explores how
far such differences can be explained by the different structures
of households as 'income-pooling units', examining three key
variables: location in the core or periphery of the world-economy;
periods of expansion versus periods of contraction in the
world-economy; and secular transformation over time. The authors
argue that both the boundaries of households and their sources of
income are molded by the changing patterns of the world-economy,
but are also modes of defense against its pressures. Drawing
empirical data from eight local regions in three different zones -
the United States, Mexico and southern Africa - this book presents
a systematic and original approach to the intimate link between the
micro-structures of households and the structures of the capitalist
world-economy at a global level.
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. From
spiteful media campaigns and a justice system that allows rapists
to go free, to domestic violence, 'honour crimes' and
sex-trafficking, Smith shows that womanhating has assumed new and
sinister forms. Smith celebrates the fact that the female eunuch
has become the public woman, but argues that we're living in an
increasingly hostile world. A call to arms, The Public Woman sets
out what we're up against - and how to fight back.
What do the attacks in London Bridge, Manchester and Westminster
have in common with those at the Charlie Hebdo offices, the
Finsbury Park Mosque attack and multiple US shootings? They were
all carried out by men with histories of domestic violence.
TERRORISM BEGINS AT HOME. Terrorism is seen as a special category
of crime that has blinded us to the obvious - that it is, almost
always, male violence. The extraordinary link between so many
tragic recent attacks is that the perpetrators have practised in
private before their public outbursts. In these searing case
studies, Joan Smith, feminist and human rights campaigner, makes a
compelling and persuasive argument for a radical shift in
perspective. Incomprehensible ideology is transformed through her
clear-eyed research into a disturbing but familiar pattern. From
the Manchester bomber to the Charlie Hebdo attackers, from angry
white men to the Bethnal Green girls, from US school shootings to
the London gang members who joined ISIS, Joan Smith shows that,
time and time again, misogyny, trauma and abuse lurk beneath the
rationalizations of religion or politics. Until Smith pointed it
out in 2017, criminal authorities missed this connection because
violence against women is dangerously normalised. Yet, since
domestic abuse often comes before a public attack, it's here a
solution to the scourge of our age might be found.
Thought-provoking and essential, Home-Grown will lift the veil on a
revelatory truth.
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