A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice (46 page)

clitoridectomy
189–90
,
210
,
251
,
252
,
269

Clytemnestra
25

Le Code Napoléon
194–5

colonies

anti-colonial movement
251

status of women in
126
,
139
,
197–8

Common Sense
(Paine)
178–9

communism
227–8
,
235

concentration camps
224–5

condoms
140
,
154
,
237
,
238
,
242

confession

in church
106
,
112

to witchcraft
121
,
123
,
125

Confessions
(St Augustine)
91–3

Confraternity of the Holy Rosary
116

Confucianism
168
,
170
,
172–3
,
175

Connolly, James
184

Constantine, Emperor
78
,
88

contraception
77
,
138
,
140
,
154
,
184
,
222
,237–40,
241–4

convents
104–6

Copernicus, Nicholas
129
,
130
,
132
,
134

Coriolanus
42

corsets
133
,
138
,
141

courtly love
107–10
,
112

Coutinho, Elsimar
243

creation myths
12
,
17
,
68
,
168
,
278

crimes against women, apologies for
130

Cromwell, Oliver
140

cults, Roman
44–6

Cultural Revolution
228

cunnilingus
171

cunt, as a term of contempt
2–3
,
6
,
171

Cyril of Alexandria, St
95–6
,
98–9

Dante Alighieri
108

Darwin, Charles
14
,
32
,
202
,
208
,
280–2

David Copperfield
(Dickens)
192

Day of Judgement
71

death penalty
39
,
40
,
46
,
53
,
70–1
,
74
,
88

for witchcraft
123–6

Defoe, Daniel
136
,
155–8
,
163

dehumanization
5
,
6
,
7
,
11
,
14
,
15
,
23
,
110
,
128
,
161
,
235
,
236
,
240
,
267

democracy
20
,
141
,
199–200
,
209
,
286

Democritus
21

demons
113
,
114–18
,
120
,
125
,
127
,
276

Demosthenes
23

denouncements
123

Descartes, René
181

the Devil
113
,
114
,
115
,
116
,
117
,
118
,
120
,
125
,
127
,
130
,
276

Diamond, Jared
283

Dickens, Charles
184–5
,
191–2

dildos
154

Dio Cassius
34

The Divine Comedy
(Dante)
108

divorce
21
,
39–40
,
53
,
194–5
,
226
,
246
,
255

Dogon tribe
210

domestic slavery
227
,
255
,
257
,
264

dualist ideology
7–8
,
10
,
15
,
27
,
30
,
35
,
67
,
81
,
89–90
,
103
,
128
,
159
,
169
,
170
,
177
,
180–1
,
182
,
211
,
212–14
,
225–6
,
227
,
235
,
279
,
280

Dubois, Abbé
169
,
172
,
175–6

Eddowes, Catherine
206

education
21
,
27
,
29
,
105
,
133
,
135–6
,
156
,
174
,
175–6
,
178
,
182
,
196
,
199
,
209
,
256
,
260
,
261
,
263
,
266
,
269

Egypt
252
,
256

Ancient
15
,
48–9

Ehrenberg, Philip Adolf von
124

Eisenbaum, Pamela
80

Eleanor of Aquitaine
106–7
,
110

Electra
(Sophocles)
25

Eliot, George
192

Eliot, T.S.
141

Elizabeth I, Queen
132

Ellis, Henry Havelock
57

elopement
88

Elvira, Church Council of
88

Engels, Freidrich
9
,
225
,
239

English Civil War
138–9
,
140

engulfment
273
,
278–9

Enlightenment
11
,
162
,
178
,
208–9
,
229
,
240
,
280
,
282
,
286

entertainment
261

Ephesus, Council of
98–9

Epicoene
(Jonson)
142–3

equality of the sexes

Christianity and
79

Enlightenment view of
208–9
,
282

philosophers on
137
,
202

political
11

in Soviet Union
226

spiritual
78–9

and women’s movement
239

see also
Blank Slate hypothesis; sexes, differences between

Eros
19–20

Etcoff, Nancy
285

Euripides
19
,
25
,
26

Eve
12
,
69
,
70
,
84
,
93
,
101
,
106
,
138
,
275
,
278

evolution
14
,
280–2
,
285

exposure at birth
33–4
,
38
,
76
,
79

Ezekiel
72–3

Fall of Man
12
,
14
,
15
,
16
,
31
,
67
,
69
,
84
,
85
,
92–3
,
138
,
213–14
,
246
,
253
,
275
,
278
,
280
,
281

family planning
see
contraception

family unit
30
,
139
,
152

family-based dynasties
17–18
,
57
,
59
,
60

Fanny Hill
(Cleland)
165

fantasies, sexual
66
,
127
,
220

fashion
132–3
,
138
,
181

father-daughter relationship
150
,
152

female circumcision
see
genital mutilation

feminism/feminists
8
,
29–30
,
179–83
,
201
,
215
,
236
,
274
,
281

financial independence
195

foot-binding
174–5

Ford, Ford Maddox
215

foreign policy, and women’s rights
267

France
124
,
240
,
247
,
265–6

French Revolution
164
,
178
,
179
,
182
,
194

Freud, Sigmund
9
,
19
,
45
,
111
,
208
,
209–13
,
273