How are women supposed to make sense of the world today? Women have never had more freedom - yet questions of inequality persist from the bedroom to the boardroom. A quarter of a century after the publication of her seminal text, Misogynies, Joan Smith looks at what women have achieved - and the price they\`ve paid for it. From spiteful media campaigns and a justice system that allows rapists to go free, to domestic violence, \`honour crimes\` and sex-trafficking, Smith shows that womanhating has assumed new and sinister forms. Smith celebrates the fact that the female eunuch has become the public woman, but argues that we\`re living in an increasingly hostile world. A call to arms, The Public Woman sets out what we\`re up against - and how to fight back