A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice (50 page)

desire as man’s punishment
94
,
187

humiliation and shame of
4–5
,
70
,
80–2
,
91–3
,
112
,
139–40

and liberalism
139–40

for recreation as well as procreation
139–40
,
154–5
,
169
,
172
,
238

Victorian views of
186–90
,
208

women’s right to display sexuality
285

Sex and Character
(Weiniger)
213–15

sexes, differences between
29–30
,
79
,
202
,
210
,
226
,
228
,
280–2

sexual revolution
11
,
56
,
77
,
172
,
228
,
237–40

Shaftesbury, Lord
195

Shakespeare, William
49
,
50
,
144–52
,
161
,
191–2

shame, sense of
70
,
80–2
,
91–3
,
112
,
139–40

shaving
121–2

Shelley, Mary
182

Simpson, Agnes
193

Simpson, James Young
193–4

sin, concept of
67
,
69–70
,
80–1
,
112
,
170

Sixth Satire
(Juvenal)
57–8
,
59
,
65

Sixtus V, Pope
246

slavery
20–1
,
23
,
33
,
34
,
200–1
,
274

Slepian, Dr Barnett A.
249

slums
183–6

social engineering
227–8

Socrates
28
,
29
,
30

sodomy
195

Solon
22–3

Sophocles
25

souls
132

South America
167
,
245
,
272

Southeast Asia
245
,
269

Soviet Union
226–7
,
229
,
233–4
,
247
,
260–1
,
264

Sparta
34–5

Sprenger, James
116–17
,
118
,
119
,
120
,
121
,
122
,
127
,
129

Stalin, Joseph
123
,
229
,
245
,
247

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
201

Stark, Rodney
77–8

Stephens, Walter
114
,
119
,
127–8

sterilization
224

Stone, Lawrence
134
,
139

Streicher, Julius
219–20

Stride, Elizabeth
206

Suarez, Francisco
102

The Subjection of Women
(Mill)
201

suffrage
20
,
51–2
,
108
,
178–9
,
182
,
196–7
,
201
,
209
,
215
,
256
,
260
,
277

suffragette movement
52

Summers, Rev. Montague
129

suttee
176–8
,
251

Swetman, Joseph
141

Switzerland
124
,
125
,
126

Tacitus, Cornelius
59
,
60
,
61
,
62
,
64
,
75

Taliban
4
,
11
,
30
,
64
,
194
,
261–7
,
285

The Taming of the Shrew
(Shakespeare)
144–5

Tantrism
171–2

Taoism
168
,
170
,
171
,
175

tar and feathers
3

Tarquinius Superbus, King of Rome
40
,
41

The Tempest
(Shakespeare)
152

terrorism
252
,
259–60

Tertullian
4
,
82–5
,
89
,
279

Thanatos
20

Theodosius I, Emperor
88

Theory of Forms, Plato’s
30–1
,
32
,
35
,
89–90
,
92

Third World
11

Thomas Aquinas, St
106
,
112
,
114
,
279

Tiberius, Emperor
54
,
60
,
61

Tocqueville, Alexis de
126
,
199–200

torture
121
,
122–3
,
125

totalitarian states
11
,
28
,
30
,
112
,
121
,
123
,
229–30
,
259–66

tribalism
232

troubadours
107
,
108
,
109–10

Troy
18
,
19

Truth, Sojourner
201

UNICEF
266
,
269

United States
178
,
197–201
,
209
,
237
,
241
,
244
,
245
,
247–51
,
252
,
259–61
,
266–7

Utopia
27
,
28–30
,
227

Utopia
(More)
135

vagina, engulfment by
273

vaginal fluids, imbibing
171

vanity
42–4
,
71–2
,
83
,
180–1
,
198

Vasseur, Thérèse le
163

the veil
252
,
253
,
254
,
255
,
256
,
257
,
260
,
261
,
263
,
269

venereal disease
140
,
186

Venusian figurines
9–10

Vestal Virgins
44–5
,
88

Victoria, Queen
194
,
197

Victorian era
178
,
183–97
,
204–7
,
208

A Vindication of the Rights of Women
(Wollstonecraft)
179–83

violence, by women against women
277

Virgin Mary
5–6
,
7
,
10
,
97–104
,
116
,
240

virginity
76
,
82
,
87
,
102
,
104

virtue and sexual purity
23
,
40–1
,
71
,
102–4
,
162
,
234

the vote
see
suffrage

war, and misogynistic acts
233–5

Warner, Marina
108
,
110

warrior women
24

Weiniger, Otto
8
,
10
,
213–16
,
222
,
276

West, Rebecca
125

widows
76
,
176–7
,
178
,
251

The Wife of Bath
(Chaucer)
110–11

wife beating
3
,
39
,
139
,
185–6
,
195
,
267

The Winter’s Tale
(Shakespeare)
152

witchdoctors
210
,
211

witches
45–6
,
96
,
112–30
,
198
,
207
,
274–5

burnings and executions
4
,
115
,
116
,
121
,
122
,
123–4
,
125
,
269

witch-hunts
97
,
109
,
118
,
121
,
124
,
127–8
,
141

Wittgenstein, Ludwig
215

Wollstonecraft, Mary
179–83
,
285

womb-envy
210

women’s rights
11
,
182
,
194–7
,
199
,
201
,
209
,
214–15
,
216
,
225
,
235
,
239
,
267
,
277
,
286

women as opponents of
197