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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