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Joan Smith

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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.

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

Why British men are rapists

  • 23 January 2006
  • 9 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

Michael Jackson: American beauty

  • 13 June 2005

His fantasies and desperate quest for physical transformation are a logical extension of the dream shared by millions of Americans, argues Joan Smith

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

Writers in prison

  • 11 June 2001

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