I PREFACE TO THE
REVISED EDITION
When 1 began writing M ogyn&s， in late December 1987， I had
little idea of how the book would be received， It was， In essen~，
a ehallrnge to myself] a test of my theory that the s~e pernlclous
attitudes were at work in disparate ~d apparendy unconnected
~pcvts of Western culture. 1 finished the book with a sense of
quiet +atisfac6on--it seemed to me that the cruse w~ proved hut
I still did nor know wha~ would happen when it was exposed to
Hi audience beyond the few close friends who had read it in
progress.
\"~hs~ z nes w~ published in Britain in 1989， and n the
United States a couple of years later. Letters from readers began
to arrive almost at once. They have never stopped. By now I have
heard ff~m women (and nlen) all over ~he world from Britain，
Germany， Australia， New Zealald， South Africa， Broil， Canada，
and from many parts of tile United Sta~es. Out of all these
huedteds of letters， only a handful have been hostile; Mtsogymes
seems m have struck a chord with a wide cross section of leaders.
One of the questions 1 am most frequently asked about the
book concerns what i，n \"t in it; why no chapter on pop music， say，
or surrealist p~n6ng or men s clubs like Bohen，ian Grove? One
[~dhersugg~tcxl ~nlypartlyinjest tha boud pdatethebook
quarterly bulletins. Yet Mtsogvmes w~ never intended to
bweh~c~mprebemive. It states its c~ ~d provide a me~hod one
the eader c~ apply to a whole r~ge of subjects the book
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