SOURCE: Diski, Jenny. “Sitting Inside.” Sight and Sound 5, no. 4 (April 1995): 12-13.

In the following essay, Diski argues that Rosemary's Baby presents a realistic representation of the fears and anxieties experienced by women during pregnancy.

There was a phrase in quite general use by male critics during the 50s and 60s to describe certain women writers (though not directors—but as far as I can remember only Agnès Varda had movies released back then). They were described as “man haters”. The phrase comes back to me because something similar is cropping up these days in articles written by women about film directors (still largely men). Settle down to a piece by a woman about Peckinpah, De Palma, Altman or Tarantino and you're very likely to read that they “don't like women”. (The language is slightly changed, but then women are different. They're nicer, aren't they?) “He doesn't like...