A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice (48 page)

and women’s rights
132
,
133

Lawal, Amina
2

Ledrede, Richard, Bishop of Ossory
115

Lee, Ok-tan
231

Lee, Sun-ok
2
,
230–2

Lenin, Vladimir
226–7

Lepidus, Marcus
51

Lex Julia
53–4
,
76

liberalism
53
,
137
,
138–9

Liberius I, Pope
103

literature

17th and 18th century
141–54

Greek
25–7
,
145
,
146

medieval
107–11

misogyny in
25–7
,
141–54
,
191–2

novels and women
155–8
,
159–61

Roman
57–9
,
65

Victorian
191–2

see also
pornography

Livia, Empress
57

Livy
41
,
43
,
44
,
45
,
52
,
56

Locke, John
137–9
,
141
,
182

London, Jack
185–6

Lourdes
240

love

in literature
107–10
,
282–4

in marriage
156–7

Lucretia, rape of
40–1
,
161

Luke, St
74
,
101

Luther, Martin
133

Lysistrata
(Aristophanes)
41

Macbeth
(Shakespeare)
146

McCalyane, Euphanie
193

Macusis tribe
167–8

magic, belief in
113

The Mahabharata
175
,
176

make-up
30
,
83
,
143
,
181
,
199
,
221
,
227
,
228
,
261
,
262
,
263
,
265
,
281
,285

male seed, women as passive receptors of
17
,
33
,
234

Malleus Maleficarum
(Sprenger and Kramer)
116
,
118–20
,
122
,
123
,
127
,
129

Mao Zedong
30
,
227–8
,
245

Marcion
73

Mark Antony
49–50
,
51
,
56

Mark, St
74
,
75
,
101

Marot, Clement
142

marriage
21
,
39
,
52–3
,
76–7
,
79
,
87
,
88
,
132
,
134
,
176
,
195

choice of partner
139
,
156

as companionship
136
,
152
,
198

Married Woman’s Property Act (1870)
195

martyrs, Christian
66
,
77

Marvell, Andrew
283

Marwar, Raja of
177

Marx, Karl/Marxism
68
,
208
,
225–8
,
239
,
274

Mary Magdalene
75

masturbation
188–90
,
210
,
217

Mather, Rev. Cotton
198–9

matriarchy
8–10

Matthew, St
73
,
74
,
101

Mau Mau
251

Maximus, Valerius
39
,
51

Mayhew, Henry
185

Measure for Measure
(Shakespeare)
161

Medea
(Euripides)
25

Menelaus
18
,
19

Mengele, Joseph
224

menstruation
73
,
167–8
,
176
,
202
,
255
,
283

Mesopotamia
15–16

Messalina
36
,
55
,
56–60
,
61
,
188

Metellus, Egnatius
39

Middle Ages
97–130
,
269
,
275

Middle East
245
,
251
,
252
,
254
,
256–7
,
267

Miles, Rosalind
9

Mill, John Stuart
201–2

millenarianism
100

Milton, John
134

misogyny

in Ancient Greece
12–35

in Ancient Rome
36–66

between 1500 and 1800
131–66

characteristics of
270

‘the common sense of society’
268–70

complexity of
5
,
271–2

first use of term
131

in Middle Ages
97–130

origins of
12
,
277
,
278

and rise of Christianity
67–96

theories of
272–4

twentieth century
208–67

in Victorian era
167–207

missionaries
186

modesty
39
,
80
,
82–4

Mohammed, Prophet
254
,
255

Moll Flanders
(Defoe)
156

monasticism
104–6
,
170

Monica, St
90–1

monsters, female
276

morality, cycles of
153
,
155
,
159

More, Thomas
135

Moslems, persecution of
233
,
234–5

motherhood

Nazi view of
212
,
216
,
219–20
,
221
,
222

see also
childbirth; children

Mott, Lucretia
201

Mubarak, President
252

music hall
193

mutilated males, women as
33
,
35
,
211

My Secret Life
205

myths
14
,
20

nakedness
223–5

Napoleon
194–5
,
203

Nasser, Gamel Abdel
256

nationalism
232
,
233
,
235

Nazi regime
11
,
30
,
123
,
128
,
159
,
212
,
216–25
,
235
,
237
,
247
,
257
,
261
,
264
,
265
,
276
,
285

Nepos, Cornelius
42

Nero, Emperor
60
,
62–4

Nestorius, Bishop of Constantinople
98–9

New Guinea
272

New Testament
73–5
,
78–82
,
101

New World
125–6
,
197–8

New Zealand
209
,
215

Newcastle, Margaret, Duchess of
136

Nichols, Mary Ann
205

Nietzsche, Friedrich
203–4
,
212–13
,
216
,
222
,
279

Nigeria
2

North Korea
2
,
227
,
230–2

North Vietnam
227

Northern Ireland
2–3

novels
155–8
,
159–61

nuns
104–6

Nuremberg Laws
11
,
261

nutritive role of women
17
,
33
,
141

Nyiramasuhuko, Pauline
277

nymphomania
57–8
,
188

obedience
104

Octavian
see
Augustus

Old Testament
12
,
68
,
69–73

Operation Rescue
247

Oppian Laws
42–4

Orestes
95–6

orgiastic practices
45
,
169
,
172

Origen
86
,
90

Original Sin
6–7
,
31
,
68
,
84
,
93
,
94
,
100–2
,
137
,
214
,
241
,
246

Orwell, George
123
,
269

Othello
(Shakespeare)
151

‘The Other’, woman as
15
,
232
,
272