A WORLD ACCORDING TO WOMEN
An end to thinking
Jane McLoughlin

‘The most extraordinarily interesting and stimulating book, written with the passion of conviction...it will change the way you think.’ Fay Weldon

Women have achieved lasting social change since the Sixties, but not because of Feminist politics. The vast majority of women have been empowered instead by popular culture, which gave them vital economic power and political significance as consumers. Factors like the marginalisation of men under Margaret Thatcher, and Tony Blair’s making government part of popular culture, combined to make women the dominant political force in our society. Yet by the very nature of the popular culture that empowered them – trivial, emotional and irrational – women have brought about change in crucial aspects of our society that now threaten the democratic system itself.

Jane McLoughlin was part of the generation of women that originally sought to build social justice through liberation politics. Since then she has seen how women themselves, through in-fighting, irrationality and refusal to abandon their victim status, have destroyed all hope of building that dream of liberation. She has worked on the Hexham Courant, Newcastle Journal, and the Daily Mirror. She was deputy women’s editor of the Daily Telegraph, a feature writer for the Daily Mail, and the editor of Guardian Women, where she was also a columnist and the industrial editor. She worked for the Observer and was a leader writer for The Independent. She was a producer for Granada TV and has published five non-fiction books, including two published by Virago, and seven novels. She knows whereof she speaks…