A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice (45 page)

Alexandria
94–6

altruism
192

Amazons
23–5
,
26

Amberley, Lady
197

American Revolution
199

‘Angel in the House’
187
,
204

Anglican Church
237

Antony and Cleopatra
(Shakespeare)
146

anti-Semitism
112
,
128
,
130
,
214–17
,
220
,
222–5
,
250

parallels with misogyny
214
,
275–7

Antigone
(Sophocles)
25
,
26

apologies, for crimes against women
130

Aquitania
107–8

Aristophanes
41
,
110

Aristotle
4
,
17
,
27
,
31–3
,
35
,
67
,
76
,
132
,
140–1
,
211
,
246
,
279

Arras, Gautier d’
110

asceticism
87
,
104
,
170
,
215

Assaad, Nawal
252

Assumption of the Virgin Mary
99
,
100

Astell, Mary
139
,
179

Athens
20–4
,
35
,
36
,
269

Atta, Mohamed
259

Auden, W. H.
209

Augustine, St
40
,
75
,
90–4
,
98
,
114

Augustus, Emperor
49–50
,
51
,
52
,
53–4
,
55
,
56

Auschwitz
225

Australia
249

Austria
223

autonomy

female
24
,
229

individual
136–7
,
139
,
140
,
158
,
208–9
,
229
,
243
,
245
,
286

male
17
,
79–80
,
106
,
140–1
,
163
,
239
,
278–80

babies, trade in
174

Babylon
15
,
21

The Bacchae
(Euripides)
25–6

Bacchus, cult of
45

Badada, Amare
244

Ban Zhao
174

Barrett, James H.
248

Bayard, Dr John
248

Beatrice (Portanari)
108

Beaujeu, Renaut de
107

beauty, women’s devotion to
180–1
,
182
,
198
,
215
,
227
,
279
,
285

Beauvoir, Simone de
84

Behn, Aphra
153–4

Belfast
3
,
4
,
5

bestiality
66
,
195

Bibi, Mukhtaran
1
,
259

Bibi, Zafran
258

Bible
see
Gospels; New Testament; Old Testament

bigamy
195

bin Laden, Osama
266

Binsfield, Peter, Bishop of Trier
121
,
123

biological theory of misogyny
272–3

birth control
see
contraception

Black Death
113

Blackwell, Elizabeth
237

Blake, William
180

Blank Slate hypothesis
137
,
202
,
226
,
280–1

Bloch, Ivan
215

Block, A.J.
189
,
190

Bodin, Jean
124

body

politics of
236–67

revulsion and rejection of
80–2
,
86
,
89
,
91–4
,
95
,
198
,
285

Bogart, Humphrey
279

Bona Dea
76

Bond, Dr Thomas
206

Book of Rites
172
,
173

boundary-crossers
23–6

Bowdler, Thomas
191

bra burners
183

Brahmins
168
,
176

Brazil
243

breeding, selective
29
,
30
,
222

Britannicus
57
,
59
,
62
,
63

Brontë, Charlotte
192

Brontë, Emily
192

Brown, Isaac Baker
189–90

Brown, Peter
86

Brutus, Decimus
47

Buddhism
168
,
169
,
170
,
171
,
172
,
177

burka
261
,
263

Burt, John A.
250

Burton, Sir Richard
254

Bush, George W.
244
,
266
,
267

Byron, Lord
203

Caesar, Julius
47
,
49

Caligula, Emperor
55
,
56

The Canterbury Tales
(Chaucer)
110–11

Caratacus
62

castration
86
,
273

Cathars
105
,
109
,
112
,
124

Catholic Church

and contraception and abortion
241–3
,
246
,
247–8
,
249

and cult of Virgin Mary
97–104
,
240

and misogyny
4
,
5–6
,
11
,
111–12
,
240

and Platonism
89–90

and Reformation
133–4

restricts role of women
88
,
89
,
105–6
,
112

view of sex
139

Catiline, Lucius
46
,
47

Cato the Elder
43–4
,
56
,
83
,
119

celibacy
77
,
81–2
,
86
,
88
,
133
,
217

Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
278

Celts
10
,
16
,
20

Central America
245

chaperones
21

Chapman, Annie
206

chastity
105
,
162
,
163

Chaucer, Geoffrey
110–11

child brothels
191

child-brides
176

childbirth

mortality in
34
,
35
,
76
,
176
,
266

suffering in
137
,
138
,
193–4
,
238
,
255

children

China’s one child policy
228–9

prejudice against girl
174
,
175
,
269

pressure to produce
52
,
55
,
222
,
238

and witchcraft
124
,
125

China
30
,
34
,
168
,
170
,
171
,
172–5
,
227–9
,
233

Chinese Revolution
175

chloroform
138
,
194

choice, battle for
229
,
237
,
243
,
245–51
,
284–5

Christianity

early church and misogyny
67–96

growth of
77–8
,
86–8

importance of women in early church
75–6
,
77
,
78
,
105

origin of its misogyny
67–8

and status of women
79
,
88

see also
Catholic Church; Fall of Man; Original Sin; Protestantism

City of God
(St Augustine)
92
,
93–4

city states, Greek
17
,
20
,
22

Clauber, Professor Carl
224

Claudius, Emperor
55
,
56–63

Cleland, James
165

Clement of Alexandria
82
,
85

Cleopatra
36
,
48–50

clerical misogyny
88
,
106
,
107

clitoris
210–12
,
273