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