John the Baptist 74, 87
John Paul II, Pope 242, 243, 247
Jonson, Ben 142–3
Judaea 12, 68
Judaism see Jews and Judaism
Julia 36, 54–6, 60
Juvenal 57–9, 65, 83, 142, 152
Kaechon political prison 2, 230–2
Kamasutra 169, 172, 254
Kant, Immanuel 202–3
Kelly, Mary Jane 206
Kenya 251
Khan, Jamal 258
Khomeini, Ayatollah 256, 257
Kim Il-sung 230
King hear (Shakespeare) 146, 150–1
Knox, John 134
Konarak, temple of 169
Kopp, James C. 249–50
Kramer, Henry 116–17, 118, 119–20, 121, 122, 127, 129
Ku Klux Klan 250
Kubizek, August 217
Kyteler, Lady Alice 115
land ownership 22, 35, 107
law
equality in 11
regulation of women by 11, 20, 21, 22–3, 37, 38–9, 53–4, 194–5, 256–8, 261–2
and women’s rights 132, 133
Lawal, Amina 2
Ledrede, Richard, Bishop of Ossory 115
Lee, Ok-tan 231
Lee, Sun-ok 2, 230–2
Lenin, Vladimir 226–7
Lepidus, Marcus 51
Lex Julia 53–4, 76
liberalism 53, 137, 138–9
Liberius I, Pope 103
literature
17th and 18th century 141–54
Greek 25–7, 145, 146
medieval 107–11
misogyny in 25–7, 141–54, 191–2
novels and women 155–8, 159–61
Roman 57–9, 65
Victorian 191–2
see also pornography
Livia, Empress 57
Livy 41, 43, 44, 45, 52, 56
Locke, John 137–9, 141, 182
London, Jack 185–6
Lourdes 240
love
in literature 107–10, 282–4
in marriage 156–7
Lucretia, rape of 40–1, 161
Luke, St 74, 101
Luther, Martin 133
Lysistrata (Aristophanes) 41
Macbeth (Shakespeare) 146
McCalyane, Euphanie 193
Macusis tribe 167–8
magic, belief in 113
The Mahabharata 175, 176
make-up 30, 83, 143, 181, 199, 221, 227, 228, 261, 262, 263, 265, 281,285
male seed, women as passive receptors of 17, 33, 234
Malleus Maleficarum (Sprenger and Kramer) 116, 118–20, 122, 123, 127, 129
Mao Zedong 30, 227–8, 245
Marcion 73
Mark Antony 49–50, 51, 56
Mark, St 74, 75, 101
Marot, Clement 142
marriage 21, 39, 52–3, 76–7, 79, 87, 88, 132, 134, 176, 195
choice of partner 139, 156
as companionship 136, 152, 198
Married Woman’s Property Act (1870) 195
martyrs, Christian 66, 77
Marvell, Andrew 283
Marwar, Raja of 177
Marx, Karl/Marxism 68, 208, 225–8, 239, 274
Mary Magdalene 75
masturbation 188–90, 210, 217
Mather, Rev. Cotton 198–9
matriarchy 8–10
Matthew, St 73, 74, 101
Mau Mau 251
Maximus, Valerius 39, 51
Mayhew, Henry 185
Measure for Measure (Shakespeare) 161
Medea (Euripides) 25
Menelaus 18, 19
Mengele, Joseph 224
menstruation 73, 167–8, 176, 202, 255, 283
Mesopotamia 15–16
Messalina 36, 55, 56–60, 61, 188
Metellus, Egnatius 39
Middle Ages 97–130, 269, 275
Middle East 245, 251, 252, 254, 256–7, 267
Miles, Rosalind 9
Mill, John Stuart 201–2
millenarianism 100
Milton, John 134
misogyny
in Ancient Greece 12–35
in Ancient Rome 36–66
between 1500 and 1800 131–66
characteristics of 270
‘the common sense of society’ 268–70
complexity of 5, 271–2
first use of term 131
in Middle Ages 97–130
origins of 12, 277, 278
and rise of Christianity 67–96
theories of 272–4
twentieth century 208–67
in Victorian era 167–207
missionaries 186
modesty 39, 80, 82–4
Mohammed, Prophet 254, 255
Moll Flanders (Defoe) 156
monasticism 104–6, 170
Monica, St 90–1
monsters, female 276
morality, cycles of 153, 155, 159
More, Thomas 135
Moslems, persecution of 233, 234–5
motherhood
Nazi view of 212, 216, 219–20, 221, 222
see also childbirth; children
Mott, Lucretia 201
Mubarak, President 252
music hall 193
mutilated males, women as 33, 35, 211
My Secret Life 205
myths 14, 20
nakedness 223–5
Napoleon 194–5, 203
Nasser, Gamel Abdel 256
nationalism 232, 233, 235
Nazi regime 11, 30, 123, 128, 159, 212, 216–25, 235, 237, 247, 257, 261, 264, 265, 276, 285
Nepos, Cornelius 42
Nero, Emperor 60, 62–4
Nestorius, Bishop of Constantinople 98–9
New Guinea 272
New Testament 73–5, 78–82, 101
New World 125–6, 197–8
New Zealand 209, 215
Newcastle, Margaret, Duchess of 136
Nichols, Mary Ann 205
Nietzsche, Friedrich 203–4, 212–13, 216, 222, 279
Nigeria 2
North Korea 2, 227, 230–2
North Vietnam 227
Northern Ireland 2–3
novels 155–8, 159–61
nuns 104–6
Nuremberg Laws 11, 261
nutritive role of women 17, 33, 141
Nyiramasuhuko, Pauline 277
nymphomania 57–8, 188
obedience 104
Octavian see Augustus
Old Testament 12, 68, 69–73
Operation Rescue 247
Oppian Laws 42–4
Orestes 95–6
orgiastic practices 45, 169, 172
Origen 86, 90
Original Sin 6–7, 31, 68, 84, 93, 94, 100–2, 137, 214, 241, 246
Orwell, George 123, 269
Othello (Shakespeare) 151
‘The Other’, woman as 15, 232, 272
Ovid 169
ovulation 283–4
Ozick, Cynthia 223
Paine, Thomas 178–9, 180, 199
Pakistan 1, 257–9, 260–1, 264, 267
Pamela (Richardson) 159–61, 191
Pandora 12–15, 17, 18, 19, 31, 69, 278
paradise, myth of 16
Parthenon 24
passivity 104
patriarchy 8, 239, 274
Paul, St 75, 78–82, 86, 101, 139
Paul VI, Pope 242
pay, women’s 184
Paz, Octavio 169, 278
penis envy 211, 212
the Perfects 109
The Perfumed Garden 254, 263
Pericles 36
Pilgrim Fathers 198
pill, the 238–40
Pinker, Steven 281, 282
Pisa, Christine de 135
Pius IX, Pope 101, 240, 246
Pius XII, Pope 99
Planned Parenthood 250
Plato 27–31, 34, 35, 67, 78, 79, 89–90, 91, 92, 102, 128, 135, 202, 214, 227, 228, 279, 282
Plutarch 49
> Poland 126, 223–4
political affairs
women’s role in 51–2, 61–3, 64, 108, 138–9
see also suffrage
political equality 11
polygamy 173, 254, 255
Pomeroy, Sarah 15
Pope, Alexander 159
Popper, Karl 28
population, male-female ratio in 34–5, 174, 175
pornography 24–5, 163–6, 193, 205
Portugal 240
possession 126
poverty 185
pre-natal sex tests 175
priesthood 106
Priestly, Joseph 180
prisons, women’s 2, 230–2
pro-life movement 229, 244, 245, 248–51, 277
Prometheus 13, 69
promiscuity 56–7, 186, 187, 239
property 22, 35, 107, 132, 158, 195, 239, 269, 274
prostitution 23, 34, 46, 53–4, 66, 89, 176, 186, 206, 207, 217, 271
Protestantism 134, 135–6
fundamentalist 11, 89, 138, 244, 245, 247, 248, 249
psychological differences between the sexes 210, 281–2
psychological theory of misogyny 273
Ptolemy 49
public protests 42–4, 51–2
punishments, for women 2, 65–6, 96, 109, 132, 198, 221, 230–1, 255–7, 258, 262
Puritans 125–6, 140, 198
purity, celebration of 6, 160–2
racism 30, 220, 232, 234, 267, 268
rakes 152–4
rap culture 269–70
rape 1, 21–2, 40–1, 66, 162, 200, 220–1, 233, 257–9, 259
as cause of divorce 21, 195
and consent 242–3
in war 233–5, 277
Rape of Nanking 233
Raubal, Geli 217
Reagan, Ronald 244
reason 162, 181
Red Army 233–4
Reformation 124, 128, 133–4, 198, 240
religion
women and 75–6, 77, 133–4
see also Buddhism; Christianity; Confucianism; cults, Roman; Hinduism; Islam; Jews and Judaism; Taoism
Religious Tract Society 186
remarriage 176, 178
Remy, Nicholas 124
reproduction 17, 29, 139, 140–1, 237
The Republic (Plato) 27, 28–31, 34, 90, 135, 227, 228
Restoration 153
revolutionaries, women as 46–8
Richardson, Samuel 159–61, 163
Ridgeway, Gary 271
Robbins, Marty 276
Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of 152–3, 154
Rohm, Ernest 220
Rolling Stones 270
Romantic movement 202
Rome, Ancient 10, 21, 36–66, 85
Romulus 38, 39, 41
Roosevelt, Theodore 237–8
Rosenberg, Alfred 221
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 161–3, 165, 166, 202, 204, 279
Roxana (Defoe) 156, 157–8, 163
Rudolph, Eric Robert 250
Russell, Bertrand 32, 75, 90, 136, 182, 239, 281
Russian Revolution 209, 226
Rwanda 232, 277
Sabine women, rape of the 41
Sade, Marquis de 165–6
Salem, Massachusetts 125–6
Sallust 46–8
salvation, concept of 85
Sanger, Margaret 250
sati 176–8, 251
Saudi Arabia 267
Schliemann, Heinrich 174–5
Schopenhauer, Arthur 203, 204, 213, 216, 222
scientific revolution 7, 132, 140–1, 183, 240, 241, 280
Scotland 124, 125
Scotus, Duns 101
seclusion 21, 42, 163, 173, 254, 255, 269
Second Coming 100
Secord, Paul 78
self-sacrifice 192
semen, retention of 171
Sempronia 36, 46–7, 50
Seneca 54, 55
September 11th 252, 259–60, 265
Serbia 234–5
serial killers 204–7, 271
sex
attempts to suppress women’s sexuality 84, 161, 285
demonic 115–18, 120, 125, 126, 127
desire as man’s punishment 94, 187
humiliation and shame of 4–5, 70, 80–2, 91–3, 112, 139–40
and liberalism 139–40
for recreation as well as procreation 139–40, 154–5, 169, 172, 238
Victorian views of 186–90, 208
women’s right to display sexuality 285
Sex and Character (Weiniger) 213–15
sexes, differences between 29–30, 79, 202, 210, 226, 228, 280–2
sexual revolution 11, 56, 77, 172, 228, 237–40
Shaftesbury, Lord 195
Shakespeare, William 49, 50, 144–52, 161, 191–2
shame, sense of 70, 80–2, 91–3, 112, 139–40
shaving 121–2
Shelley, Mary 182
Simpson, Agnes 193
Simpson, James Young 193–4
sin, concept of 67, 69–70, 80–1, 112, 170
Sixth Satire (Juvenal) 57–8, 59, 65
Sixtus V, Pope 246
slavery 20–1, 23, 33, 34, 200–1, 274
Slepian, Dr Barnett A. 249
slums 183–6
social engineering 227–8
Socrates 28, 29, 30
sodomy 195
Solon 22–3
Sophocles 25
souls 132
South America 167, 245, 272
Southeast Asia 245, 269
Soviet Union 226–7, 229, 233–4, 247, 260–1, 264
Sparta 34–5
Sprenger, James 116–17, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 127, 129
Stalin, Joseph 123, 229, 245, 247
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady 201
Stark, Rodney 77–8
Stephens, Walter 114, 119, 127–8
sterilization 224
Stone, Lawrence 134, 139
Streicher, Julius 219–20
Stride, Elizabeth 206
Suarez, Francisco 102
The Subjection of Women (Mill) 201
suffrage 20, 51–2, 108, 178–9, 182, 196–7, 201, 209, 215, 256, 260, 277
suffragette movement 52
Summers, Rev. Montague 129
suttee 176–8, 251
Swetman, Joseph 141
Switzerland 124, 125, 126
Tacitus, Cornelius 59, 60, 61, 62, 64, 75
Taliban 4, 11, 30, 64, 194, 261–7, 285
The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare) 144–5
Tantrism 171–2
Taoism 168, 170, 171, 175
tar and feathers 3
Tarquinius Superbus, King of Rome 40, 41
The Tempest (Shakespeare) 152
terrorism 252, 259–60
Tertullian 4, 82–5, 89, 279
Thanatos 20
Theodosius I, Emperor 88
Theory of Forms, Plato’s 30–1, 32, 35, 89–90, 92
Third World 11
Thomas Aquinas, St 106, 112, 114, 279
Tiberius, Emperor 54, 60, 61
Tocqueville, Alexis de 126, 199–200
torture 121, 122–3, 125
totalitarian states 11, 28, 30, 112, 121, 123, 229–30, 259–66
tribalism 232
troubadours 107, 108, 109–10
Troy 18, 19
Truth, Sojourner 201
UNICEF 266, 269
United States 178, 197–201, 209, 237, 241, 244, 245, 247–51, 252, 259–61, 266–7
Utopia 27, 28–30, 227
Utopia (More) 135
vagina, engulfment by 273
vaginal fluids, imbibing 171
vanity 42–4, 71–2, 83, 180–1, 198
Vasseur, Thérèse le 163
the veil 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 260, 261, 263, 269
venereal disease 140, 186
Venusian figurines 9–10
Vestal Virgins 44–5, 88
Victoria, Queen 194, 197
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Victorian era 178, 183–97, 204–7, 208
A Vindication of the Rights of Women (Wollstonecraft) 179–83
violence, by women against women 277
Virgin Mary 5–6, 7, 10, 97–104, 116, 240
virginity 76, 82, 87, 102, 104
virtue and sexual purity 23, 40–1, 71, 102–4, 162, 234
the vote see suffrage
war, and misogynistic acts 233–5
Warner, Marina 108, 110
warrior women 24
Weiniger, Otto 8, 10, 213–16, 222, 276
West, Rebecca 125
widows 76, 176–7, 178, 251
The Wife of Bath (Chaucer) 110–11
wife beating 3, 39, 139, 185–6, 195, 267
The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare) 152
witchdoctors 210, 211
witches 45–6, 96, 112–30, 198, 207, 274–5
burnings and executions 4, 115, 116, 121, 122, 123–4, 125, 269
witch-hunts 97, 109, 118, 121, 124, 127–8, 141
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 215
Wollstonecraft, Mary 179–83, 285
womb-envy 210
women’s rights 11, 182, 194–7, 199, 201, 209, 214–15, 216, 225, 235, 239, 267, 277, 286
women as opponents of 197
Wonder Woman 24
working conditions 184
World Health Organization 245
wrestlers, women 24
Yang Chen 174
Yugoslavia 234–5
Zia ul-Huq, General 257, 258, 261
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