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Alice, in Blackmail, is regarded as the first of Hitchcock's aberrant women, an idea more famously explored in later films such as Psycho(1960), Under Capricorn(1949) and The Birds(1963). Sylvia in Sabotage also fits into this mould
http://http://www.britishfilm.org.uk/article.php?art=hitchcock&page=4

'Misogyny and Sexual violence' towards women is a deep rooted issue. It is a psychological issue. Sexual violence towards women does not always stem from a man having had a negative relationship with his mother, even though that is usually the first assumption people come up with. For example the late film director Alfred Hitchcock was very misogynistic towards women and that is a prevalent motif in many of his films. As well as perverse relationships. There is evidence of this in films such as Psycho, Vertigo, Frenzy, Marnie. Often the woman is punished for being sexually deviant. A good example of this is when Marion is brutally murdered in the famous shower scene in Psycho. The reason for this is because she is often filmed naked in a bra and she has an affair with a married man, this is the first scene where we see Marion, therefore it could be argued that the spectator can never take Marion seriously because from the first scene we meet her she is a 'whore'.