Ode to the Virginia Voyage, An, 196
Odo of Cluny, 98
oestrus, 26, 28
Of the Nobility and Superiority of the Female Sex, 140
Ojibwa tribe, the, 213
Okwei, Omu, 216
Old Testament, the, 94, 238
Olga, Queen of Russia, 85
O’Malley, Grace – see Mhaol, Grainne
One God, the – see monotheism
‘One Path’, the, 84
Opium War, the, 196
Orange Free State, the, 216
Ornstein, Honoria, 211
Osiris, 43, 60, 82
Ostrogoths, the, 67
Ottoman Empire, the, 149
Ottoman Turks, the, 118
Oxford, University of, 20, 240, 272
Pacific, the, 209
Pakistan, 277
Paleolithic age, the, 32
Palestine, 110
Pallas Athene – see Athene
Pan Chao – see Ban Zhao
Pankhurst, Christabel, 254
Pankhurst, Mrs Emmeline, 236, 242
Papacy, the, 131
Papua, 109
Papyrus of Tameniu, the, 57
Paraclete, Convent of the, 133
Paraguay, 267
Paraguayan War, the, 267
Paris, 179, 180, 185
Paris, University of, 144, 167
Parks, Rosa, 284
Parsi, the, 108
Paston, Elizabeth, 112
patriarchy, 41, 46, 81–102, 103–4, 107, 109–10, 115, 118, 122–3, 129, 130, 137, 139, 155, 200, 216, 222–3, 224, 238, 245, 257, 258–9, 261, 272, 274
Paul, Saint, 88, 93, 105, 257
Pawnee, the, 205
Peking, 69
Pepys, Elizabeth, 156–7, 164
Pepys, Samuel, 156–7, 164
Pérégrinations d’un Paria, 235
Perfumed Garden, The, 107
Pericles, 55
Perpetua, Saint, 84
Persia, 40, 66, 111, 138
Persian Wars, the, 55
Perovskaya, Sofya, 269
Peru, 69, 163, 248
Peshawar, 206
Petition of the Women of the Third Estate to the King, The, 183
Peyelstainin, Anna, 121
Phalles, 61
phallus, the, 57–77, 86, 226, 261–2
Philippe of Navarre, 124
Philippine Revolution, the, 268
Philippi, 88
‘Philosopher’, the – see Hypatia
Pickering, Mayor William, 144
Pilgrim Fathers, the, 197
‘Pill, the’, 271–2
Pincus, Gregory, 271
Piribebuy, battle of, 265
‘Pitcher Molly’ – see Hays, Mary Ludwig
‘Poissardes’, the, 179
Place, Francis, 259
Plato, 98, 129
Pleistocene age, the, 21, 29
Pliny, 51, 53
Pluckrose, Nicholas, 151
Plutarch, 51, 68
Plymouth, England, 197
Poitiers, 131, 185
polyandry, 89
polygamy, 90, 100, 107
Polynesia, 39, 157–8
Pompeii, 61
Pondicherry, battle of, 268
Pope, the, 114, 133
Port Elizabeth, 197
Portjoie, Parnell, 151
Portsmouth, Duchess of, 170
Portuguese, the, 138, 149, 150, 196
Posidippus, 69
Post, Emily, 230
Priapus, 61
Principles of Geology, 237
‘problem without a name’, the, 274
Protestantism, 132, 150
Provost of Padua, the, 115
Prynne, William, 169
Psycho, 285
Ptolemy Alexander, 67
‘Puff Haus’, the, 266
‘Puff Mutter’, the, 266
Pulcheria, Empress, 73–4
Punjab, the, 196
Puritans, the, 150, 169, 250
Puriti, 65
Puvi, 65
Pythagoras, 129
qadishtu, the, 54
‘Queen of Heaven’, the – see Great Goddess, the
Queen’s Bench, Court of the, 221
Quetzalcoatl, 98
Quissama women, the, 160
Quraish, the, 87, 94
Radegund, Queen of the Franks, 131–2
Raj, the, 252
Ramabai, Pandita, 240
Rameses II, 46
Rascher, Dr Sigmund, 266
Read, Professor Carveth, 29
Rebestoeckyn, Katherine, 165
Red Army, the, 280
Reddy, Helen, 287
Redgrove, Peter, 26
Reformation, the, 143
Reibey, Mary, 210
religious sisterhoods, 124, 128, 130–33
Renaissance, the, 132, 140, 143, 150, 160, 251
Resistance, French, the, 266
Revolution, 237
Revolutionary Republican Women, the, 185
Rhodesia, 270
Richards, Mary, 190
Riedesel, Baroness, 175
Rights of Man, The, 183
rights of man, the, 233
‘ritual prostitution’, 53–4
Rival Queens, The, 169
River of No Return, 211
Roanoke Island, 197
Robespierre, Maximilien, 185
Robinson, George Augustus, 214
Robinson, Victor, 244
Rochester, Earl of, 169
‘Rocky Mountain Jim’, 209
Roland, Manon, 182, 184–5, 186
Rome, 71, 73, 88, 92, 114, 131
Roman Catholic Church, the, 62, 124–5, 131, 135, 139, 144, 167, 238, 250, 257, 273
Romans, the, 37, 39, 47, 50, 53, 62, 67, 72, 73, 76, 84, 152, 248
Rotterdam, 197
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 185
Routh, Dr C. H.J., 260
Rugby, England, 194
Russell, Dora, 274
Russell, Margery, 166
Russia, 37, 85, 118, 149, 153, 240, 242, 268, 280
Russian Orthodox Church, the, 85
Rye, Miss, 231
Sabbah, Fatnah A., 95, 101
Sabhura, battle of, 89
sacrificial king, the, 42–3, 85
Sahara, the, 127
St Hilda’s College, Oxford, 240
St Mary Winchester, Abbess of, 233
Salem, Mass., 201
Sammuramat, Queen, 46, 47
Sandes, Flora, 268
San bush people, the, 126
Sanger, Margaret, 244, 259, 260, 263
Santamaria, Haydee, 270
Santander, 166
Sappho, 75
Saracens, the, 92
Sargon I, King of Assyria, 36, 63
sati, 119, 241
Saxons, the, 84, 137, 138
‘Saxon nymph’, the – see Elstob, Elizabeth
Schleswig, 125
Schmidt, Franz, 122
Schreiner, Olive, 225
‘scold’s bridle’, the, 106
Scots, the, 53, 191, 203, 209, 214
Scythians, 50, 66, 74
Seacole, Mary, 210
Second Sex, The, 274
Seeking Her Husband at the Great Wall, 76
Select Parliamentary Committee on the State of the Gaols (1819), 201
Semiramis – see Sammurat
Seneca Falls Convention, the, 221, 223, 237
Serbians, the, 268
Seshat, 129
‘Seven Ages of Woman’, the, 246
Severus, Emperor, 53, 73
Sewall, Reverend Samuel, 199
sex segregation, 225, 280–81
Sexual Politics, 275
sexual surgery, 246
seyyib, 111
Shackley, Myra, 31, 32
Shaftesbury, Abbess of, 233
Shah of Iran, the, 284
Shahi, Mashid Amir, 284
Shakespeare, William, 99, 135, 246
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Shanghai, 117
Shanidar, caves of, 33, 38
Shaw, Dr Anna, 203–4
Shaw, Ellinor, 137
Shaw, George Bernard, 219
Sherman, General, 205
‘She-Souldiers’, 177–8, 181
Shinto philosophy, the, 66, 106
Shiva, 57, 61
Short Prayers for a Long Day, 81
Shrewsbury, England, 166
Shulchan Aruch, the, 109
Shuttle, Penelope, 26
Siberia, 32, 269
Simla, 203, 208
Singapore, 196
Sioux, the, 108, 205, 283
Slessor, Mary, 209
Slocum, Sally, 24
Small, Rebekah, 197
Smellie, William, 252
Snell, Hannah, 268
Society for Women’s Rights, the, 236
Socrates, 129
Sokalski, Annie Blanche, 205
Solanas of Ephesus, 248
‘solarisation’, process of, 66
Solon of Athens, 71
Solutre, 32
Somalia, 116
Songhay Empire, the, 149
‘Sons of the Old Woman’, the – see Beni Shaybah
South Africa, 29, 35, 126, 196, 197, 215, 225
South America, 149, 268, 270
Spain, 66, 166, 196, 248, 268
Sparta, 48, 49
Spencer, Herbert, 29, 228
Spender, Dale, 274
‘Splenditello’, 132
Sprenger, Jacob, 107
Sri Lanka, 196, 276
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 236, 237, 238, 254, 255
Starr, Mrs, 206
Stewart, John, 33
Stone Age, the, 21–35, 58
Stone, Lucy, 242, 254
Stony Point, battle of, 174
Stopes, Marie, 260
Storr, Anthony, 30
Strabo, 51, 78
Stuart, the house of, 177, 233
Subh, 88
‘subincision’ of males, 58
Subjection of Women, The, 236
Sudan, the, 115
Sufism, 128
suffrage struggle, the, 221–43, 255–6, 280
Sumeria, 36, 38, 42, 54
Susa-nu-wo, 66
Switzerland, 168
suttee – see sati
Sweden, 131
Swiney, Francis (‘Miss Swiney of Cheltenham’), 255
Sydney, Australia, 196
Syria, 209
T’ai P’ing rebellion, the, 267
Tale of Genji, The, 129
Talmud, the, 105
Tammuz, 43, 85
Tamyris, Queen, 50, 66
T’ang dynasty, the, 75
Tanzoumaitak, 34
Tassili N’Ajjer, 34
Taylor, Susie King, 204–5
Telessilla, 52
Tennessee, 257
Teng Yingch’ao, 269
Teresa of Avila, Saint, 125
Tertullian, 105
Tescon, Trinidad, 268
Tetoinnan, 70
Teush, Mrs, 222
Thatcher, Margaret, 277
Theano, 129
Thebes, 60
Theodora, 74
Theodoric, King, 67
Theodosius the Great, 67
Theseus, 51
Thomas, W. I., 25
Thomson, William, 235–6, 239
Thoreau, Henry David, 249
Thousand and One Nights, The, 91
‘Three Wise Ones’, the, 65
Thutmose I, Pharaoh, 47
Ti’amat, 65
Tiber, the, 44, 50
Tibet, 39, 164, 209
Tierra del Fuego, 69
Timbuktu, University of, 149
Tiwi, the, 65
Tokyo, 271
toreras, 49
Torralba, 32
Tralles, 38
Transvaal, 215
Tristan, Flora, 234–5
Trobriand Islands, 126
Trotula, 167
Troy Female Seminary, the, 240
Trubnikova, Marya, 240
Truth, Sojourner, 232
Tubman, Harriet, 232
Tudors, the, 159
Tuileries, the, 182
Turkey, 38, 111, 118–19, 149, 209
Tytler, Harriet, 207
Uduk, the, 127
Uhremaun, 108
Ukraine, the, 125
UN Decade of Women’s Rights, 275
United Kingdom, the, 231, 273
‘underground railway’, the, 232
US National Women’s Political Caucus, 275
Uruk, 38, 54
‘uterus-envy’, 24–5, 58–9, 76–7, 78, 95, 227
Vac, 40, 128
Valence, Jeanne, 156
Valeria Messalina, 74
Van Riebeck, Colonel, 197
Vaughan, Dr, 252–3
Veda, the, 40, 129
Veil, Simone, 273, 277
Velasquez, Loreta, 268
Venus, 43
Venus figurines, the, 37, 56
Verney, Sir Ralph, 177
Versailles, 179–80, 181
Vestal Virgins, the, 44
Vicereine of India, the, 205
Victoria, Queen, 221, 223, 250
Vienna, 261
Villon, François, 165
Vindication of the Rights of Woman, A, 234
Virbius, 86
Virgin Mary, the, 86, 98
Virginia, USA, 196, 198
Virginia City, 211
Vishnu, 56, 61
Visigoths, the, 67, 121
Voltaire (François Marie Arouet), 185
Von Hubner, Baron, 200
Von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, 140
Von Ortemberg, Else, 165
‘Votes for Women’, 235–6, 242
Wales, 62, 138
Walker, Elizabeth, 136–7
Ward, Freda, 257
Ward, Mary, 144
Wardle, Betty, 191
Washburn, Professor S., 30
Washington, George, 174
Waterford, Ireland, 151
Webb, Beatrice, 224
Wedded Bliss, 147
Wei dynasty, the, 47
Wei Fu-Jen, 75
Weimar constitution, the, 265
Well of Loneliness, The, 258
Wells, H. G., 28, 30
What the Black Woman Thinks about Women’s Lib, 283
Wheeler, Mrs, 235
‘White Lady’, the, 34
‘White Terror’, the, 270
White Woman, the, 47
Wife of Bath’s Tale, The, 124
Wife’s Handbook, The, 260
wife-lending, 69
Wild West, the – see American West
Wilkinson, Eliza, 173
Willard, Emma H., 240
Williams, Eleanor, 156
Wilson, Isabel, 191
Wilton, Abbess of, 233
Winnepagos, the, 58
Wise Wound, The, 26
witchcraft, 107, 120, 135–7, 145
witch hunts, the, 135–7, 252
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 234
‘woman question’, the, 226
Woman Rebel, The, 260
woman suffrage, 236, 237
‘woman’s battalion of death’, the, 268
Woman’s Bible, The, 238
Woman’s Labour, The, 172
‘woman’s nature’, 227
WOMAN: childbirth, 39–40, 44, 58, 84, 103, 110, 117, 118, 125, 130, 207, 214, 246, 250–52; defloration, 110, 111, 115, 246; gathering-skills, 21, 22, 27, 39; housework, 280–82; menstruation, 26–8, 39, 44, 58, 68, 72, 109–10, 113, 124, 163, 246, 247; wife-work, 163–4; work, 19, 149–71, 225–6, 231, 278–81
WOMEN: accomplishments of, 21, 143; education of, 124–45, 159–60, 182, 223, 234, 238–42, 245, 255, 280; emancipation of, 221–43; enfranchisement of, 223–43; gynocide of, 70, 84, 103, 115–23, 135–7, 212; obscene activities of, 126; political clubs of, 184–5; religious authority of, 36–56
; rights of, 221–43; sex organs of, 26, 28–9, 30–31, 33, 36, 38, 39, 41, 57–9, 87, 102, 103–23, 145, 168, 274–5; skills of, 19, 21; technology of, 28; seclusion (purdah) of, 89, 101, 130, 205; veiling of, 89, 101, 130; virginity of, 98, 105, 110–12, 113–14, 130; wages of, 155–6, 166, 188, 282; weakness of, 133–4, 227–8, 245–6;
WOMEN AS: actresses, 168–9; artists, 75, 133; athletes, 49–50, 55, 141; astronomers, 75, 77; blacksmiths, 165; brewers, 160; brothel-keepers, 170; ‘burrah memsahibs’, 203, 208; businesswomen, 131, 210–17, 231; cashiers, 231; chemists, 75; colonists, 196–211; colonised, 211–17; convict transports, 201–2, 210; cooks, 21; coopers, 165; counsellors, 34; criminals, 198–9; cutlers, 190; doctors, 34, 75, 131, 144, 152, 161, 167–8, 210, 240–41, 265; educationalists, 75, 129, 238; empresses, 47, 66–7, 73–4, 137–8; explorers, 209; factory workers, 187–93, 253–4; farmers, 55, 99, 187–8; gardeners, 64, 165; goldsmiths, 165; grinders, 190; gynaecologists, 71–2, 167; heroines, 89, 91; historians, 75, 133, 141; intellectuals, 75–6, 90, 143; inventors, 77; law-givers, 34; lawyers, 239; leather-workers, 21; maidservants, 48, 177; manufacturers, 99, 153, 160–61, 164–5; magicians, 34; market traders, 215–16; martyrs, 84, 88; mathematicians, 75, 77, 129, 168; merchants, 55, 99, 165; midwives, 161–2, 214, 252; mineworkers, 190–92; mothers, 19, 23–5, 39–41, 50, 55, 57–9, 97, 173–4, 244, 246; musicians, 126, 133, 141, 152, 265; nurses, 75, 161; ophthalmologists, 168; philanthropists, 200; philosophers, 77, 129, 141, 144; physicians, 167; pioneers, 152, 161–2, 170, 203–4, 210–11; poets, 37, 52, 55, 75, 139–40, 141, 144, 239; political activists, 55, 177, 181–6; preachers, 203–4; priestesses, 37, 42–3, 47, 55, 64, 76, 86, 94–5, 129, 133; professors, 168; prostitutes, 54–5, 69, 74, 121–2, 168, 170, 180, 197, 200–202, 210–11, 242, 249, 254–6; queens, 38, 45–7, 50, 55, 66, 67, 74–5, 76, 85, 137–9, 179, 180, 206, 239; revolutionaries, 176–86, 267–70; royalists, 176–7; sailors, 55, 138; scholars, 55, 75, 128–9; scientists, 133, 168, 258; scribes, 129; secretaries, 231; slaves, 62, 65, 70, 71, 84, 89, 115, 128, 210, 222, 232, 235; soldiers, 50, 52, 175–6, 177–8, 243, 254, 267–8; spinners, 153–4; spinsters, 256–7; spies, 265; stenographers, 231; story-tellers, 34; surgeons, 75, 131, 167–8; tailors, 165; teachers, 265; telephonists, 231; traders, 55, 99, 152–3, 165; transvestites, 149, 257; troubadours, 140; vagrants, 194; waggoners, 165; war-leaders, 46–7, 50, 52, 138, 176–8, 231–2; warriors, 52, 89–90; widows, 88, 90, 120, 126, 151, 173, 210; women, 34; wives, 49, 51, 87, 90, 97, 122, 126, 131, 142, 159–60, 166, 170, 187–8, 199, 207, 223, 224, 225, 244; writers, 84, 129, 133, 141, 170, 210
women’s aid, 277
‘Women’s Lib’, 283
women’s movement, the, 233–43, 270, 274
Women’s Peace Camp, the, 278
Women’s Peace Movement, the, 278
Women’s Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, 223
Woodhull, Victoria Claflin, 276
Woolf, Virginia, 145
Woolley, Hannah, 239
Worcester, England, 156
Worcester Institute for Chemical Biology, the, 271
World History, The, 71
World War I, 264–5, 268, 278
World War II, 265–6
Wu Chao, Empress, 99
Wyoming, USA, 242
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