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Spreading misandry : the teaching of contempt for men in popular culture

A probing inquiry into the pervasiveness of negative male stereotypes in popular culture.
Print Book, English, 2006
McGill-Queen's University Press ; Combined Academic [distributor], Montréal, Chesham, 2006
360 pages ; 23 cm
9780773530997, 0773530991
1065170485
1. Introduction : misandry in popular culture
2. Laughing at men : the last of Vaudeville
3. Looking down on men : separate but unequal
4. Bypassing men : women alone together
5. Blaming men : a history of their own
6. Dehumanizing men : from bad boys to beasts
7. Demonizing men : the devil is a man
8. Making the world safe for ideology : the roots of misandry
9. Conclusion
Appendix 1. Quasi-misandric movies
Appendix 2. The misandric week on television
Appendix 3. Misandric movie genres
Appendix 4. Populist or elitist : talk shows in the context of democracy
Appendix 5. Deconstructionists and Jacques Derrida, founding hero
Appendix 6. Film theory and ideological feminism
Appendix 7. Into the twenty-first century
Originally published: 2001