http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/joan_smith en http://www.newstatesman.com/arts-and-culture/2008/03/women-montagu-bluestockings http://www.newstatesman.com/arts-and-culture/2008/03/women-montagu-bluestockings Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:00:00 GMT Joan Smith The term has become one of abuse, but the "Bluestockings" were brilliant women who struggled for the right to be both clever and feminine.

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/art/2007/10/sex-pornography-exhibition http://www.newstatesman.com/art/2007/10/sex-pornography-exhibition Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:00:00 GMT Joan Smith The "great artists" on show in an adults-only exhibition at the Barbican have more excuses than pornographers do, but some of them are just as exploitative

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200601230006 http://www.newstatesman.com/200601230006 Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:00:00 GMT Joan Smith In the world of stag-night excess, lad mags and lap dancing, paying for sex is losing its stigma and more and more men do it. These "clients" are responsible for a grotesque crime, yet they get away scot-free

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200506130015 http://www.newstatesman.com/200506130015 Mon, 13 Jun 2005 12:00:00 GMT Joan Smith His fantasies and desperate quest for physical transformation are a logical extension of the dream shared by millions of Americans, argues Joan Smith

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200401120033 http://www.newstatesman.com/200401120033 Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:00:00 GMT Joan Smith Last March, Fidel Castro had 75 Cuban dissidents arrested. Among them were many writers and journalists, as Joan Smith, chair of the English Writers in Prison Committee, reports. Opposite, in an article smuggled out of jail at great personal risk, Adolfo Fernandez SaInz (right) speaks out against the regime that has sentenced him to 15 years' imprisonment for his political views

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200106110039 http://www.newstatesman.com/200106110039 Mon, 11 Jun 2001 12:00:00 GMT Joan Smith

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