Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of Contempt for Men in Popular Culture

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Summary

A probing inquiry into the pervasiveness of negative male stereotypes in popular culture.

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Acknowledgments	vii
Preface	ix
1 Introduction: Misandry in Popular Culture	3	(17)
2 Laughing at Men: The Last of Vaudeville	20	(29)
3 Looking Down on Men: Separate but Unequal	49	(30)
4 Bypassing Men: Women Alone Together	79	(29)
5 Blaming Men: A History of Their Own	108	(29)
6 Dehumanizing Men: From Bad Boys to Beasts	137	(31)
7 Demonizing Men: The Devil Is a Man	168	(26)
8 Making the World Safe for Ideology: The Roots of Misandry	194	(40)
9 Conclusion	234	(19)
Appendix 1: Quasi-Misandric Movies	253	(15)
Appendix 2: The Misandric Week on Television	268	(8)
Appendix 3: Misandric Movie Genres	276	(4)
Appendix 4: Populist or Elitist: Talk Shows in the Context of Democracy	280	(6)
Appendix 5: Deconstructionists and Jacques Derrida, Founding Hero	286	(3)
Appendix 6: Film Theory and Ideological Feminism	289	(7)
Appendix 7: Into the Twenty-First Century	296	(1)
Notes	297	(54)
Index	351