A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice (49 page)

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