A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice (47 page)

Fu Hsuan
173

‘gag rule’
244

Galileo Galilei
130
,
132

Gallus, Gaius Sulpicius
39
,
110

gang rape
1
,
233
,
259

Genesis
12
,
68
,
69
,
70
,
137
,
214
,
281

genital mutilation
2
,
189–90
,
207
,
210
,
251–2
,
269

genocide
223–5
,
232
,
277

Germanicus
60
,
61
,
63

Germany
124
,
275

see also
Nazi regime

Geto Boys (rap group)
269

Ghazali
255–6

ghettos
223–4

Gibbon, Edward
86
,
96

Gilgamesh
15–16

Gilmore, David
274

Gimbutas, Marija
9

gladiators, female
64–5

Gladstone, William
196

God

divine disapproval of women
71–3
,
279

New Testament
73
,
78–9

Old Testament
69–73

Plato’s view of
31

as a woman
9

Goddard, William
143

goddesses

Great Goddess
9–10
,
76

Greek
16–17

Hindu
168

gods, Greek
13
,
15
,
16–17

Godwin, William
180
,
182

Goldhagen, Daniel
268

Gospels
73–5
,
101

Graecina, Pomponia
75

Graves, Robert
20

Greece, Ancient
10
,
12–35
,
36
,
37
,
42
,
67
,
269

Greek tragedy
25–7
,
145
,
146

Greenaway, Kate
190

Greer, Germaine
215

Griese, Fr Orville
241

Griffin, Michael
248
,
250

Grossman, Vasily
229

Guardians, Plato’s
28–31
,
78
,
79
,
90
,
227

Gunn, Dr David
248
,
250

Guttentag, Marcia
78

Guy-Sheftall, Beverly
201

Hamlet
(Shakespeare)
146–50
,
151
,
180

Hammurabi, King
21

Hartford, Connecticut
125

Heaney, Seamus
1

hedonism
153

Heer, Friedrich
107–8
,
112

Hekmatyar, Gulbuddin
252–3
,
260
,
261
,
267

Helen of Troy
18–19
,
48

Hepburn, Katharine
279

heresy
109
,
113
,
115
,
121
,
124
,
128

hermits
87

Herodotus
23

Hesiod
13
,
15
,
18

Higginbotham, Leon
200–1

Hilarion
33

Hill, Paul
248–9

Himmler, Heinrich
222

Hinduism
168–9
,
170
,
171
,
176
,
233

Hippolyta
(Euripides)
26

The History of Juliette
(Sade)
165–6

history, the story of men
8

Hitler, Adolf
204
,
216–23
,
229
,
245
,
248
,
249
,
250
,
276
,
279

Holocaust
128
,
223–5
,
229
,
247
,
248
,
249
,
250

Homer
18

homosexuality
71
,
89
,
188
,
218
,
265

Hopkins, Matthew
125

Horace
50

Hortensia
51–2

Huizinga, J.
130

human rights organizations
230
,
231
,
235
,
258

Humanae Vitae
242

Hypatia of Alexandria
94–6
,
98

Ibn al-Arabi
255

Ibrahim, Said
252

Ice Cube (rapper)
270

icons
103–4

Immaculate Conception
101
,
102
,
240–1
,
246

Incarnation
100
,
102
,
103
,
113
,
275

India
34
,
168–9
,
170
,
172
,
175–8
,
233
,
251
,
269

industrial revolution
183–5

infanticide
2
,
33–4
,
38
,
76
,
79
,
231–2

Innocent III, Pope
105
,
109
,
112
,
117–18

Inquisitors/Inquisition
96
,
116
,
118
,
120–3
,
124
,
127
,
129

Intra Uterine Device (IUD)
240

Iran
256–7

Ireland
115
,
240
,
245

Isaiah
71–2

Isis
76

Islam
170
,
177
,
252–67
,
253–6
,
285

see also
Moslems, persecution of

Italy
247

Jack the Ripper
4
,
171
,
204–7
,
233

James
I
&
VI
, King
135
,
193

Japan
174
,
233

Jerome, St
86

Jesus Christ
67
,
68
,
87
,
275

attitude to women
73–5
,
78–9
,
85

consubstantial nature of
99–100

women blamed for suffering and death of
84–5

Jews and Judaism
12
,
67–73
,
112
,
128
,
130
,
159
,
214–17
,
222–5
,
250
,
275–6

Joan of Arc
130

John, St
73–4
,
89–90
,
101

John XXII, Pope
115

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