Joan Smith
Articles by Joan Smith
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Culture
Blues sisters
- 13 March 2008
The term has become one of abuse, but the "Bluestockings" were brilliant women who struggled for the right to be both clever and feminine.
Art
Sex, lies and videotape
- 11 October 2007
- 7 comments
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
Politics
Why British men are rapists
- 23 January 2006
- 14 comments
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
World Affairs
Michael Jackson: American beauty
- 13 June 2005
- 1 comment
His fantasies and desperate quest for physical transformation are a logical extension of the dream shared by millions of Americans, argues Joan Smith
Politics
Writers in prison - The other side of paradise
- 12 January 2004
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
