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The Women's History of the World

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by Rosalind Miles


  Etruscans, the, 50

  Eumenides, The, 68

  Euripides, 49

  Europe, 37, 57, 60, 71, 75, 84, 106, 111, 112, 113, 114, 120, 122, 125, 126, 127, 128, 132, 133, 135, 136, 139, 140, 149, 153, 154, 156, 222, 257, 258, 264, 273, 280

  European Court of Justice, the, 273

  Evans, Sir Arthur, 37

  Eve, 20, 83, 95, 134, 140, 238

  Eve dans l’Humanité, 236

  evolution, 19–35, 226–7

  Exaltation of Inanna, The, 36

  Exile, the, 82

  Ezekiel, 85

  Fabiola, 75

  Father God – see God the Father

  ‘Feast of Salt’, the, 127

  Felicie, Jacoba, 144

  Felicitas, 84

  female circumcision – see ‘genital mutilation’

  Female Emigration Societies, the, 199

  Female Eunuch, The, 275

  female infanticide, 70, 101, 104, 117–18

  Female Sexuality, 263

  femina erecta, 21, 25

  Feminine Mystique, The, 274

  feminism, 146, 182, 184–5, 234, 237, 238, 260, 268, 270, 274

  Ferraro, Geraldine, 277

  Figner, Vera, 269

  Findmor, Queen, 50

  Finistère, 155

  Finland, 242

  Firestone, Shulamith, 275

  First Fleet, the, 196, 202

  ‘First Lady of Athens’, the, 129

  First Reform Bill, the, 237

  Fischerin, Magdalen, 122

  Fitzherbert, Sir Anthony, 158, 160

  Flanders, 166

  Fódla, 65

  Foutin, ‘Saint’, 62

  Fountaine, Margaret, 209

  France, 32, 62, 116, 119, 127, 135, 138, 140, 141, 143, 144, 149, 154, 156, 163, 167, 168, 169, 178–86, 196, 222, 229, 234, 237, 255, 257, 265, 273, 276

  Frankfurt, 167

  Frazer, Sir George, 44

  Fredegund, Queen of the Franks, 74

  French, Marilyn, 57

  French Revolution, the, 154, 178–86

  Freud, Sigmund, 244, 261–2

  Friedan, Betty, 274

  Gaea, 39

  Galla Placida, 67

  Gandhi, Indira, 277

  Gaul, the, 51

  Geb, 57

  ‘Gene Fount Mother’, the, 20

  Genesis, 20

  Geneva, 269

  Genghis Khan, 98

  genital mutilation, 89, 115–17, 247

  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 285–6

  Geoffrey of Tours, 118

  German Dominican Inquisitors, the, 136

  Germantown, battle of, 174

  Germany, 115, 133, 165, 168, 237, 248, 257, 258, 261, 265–6, 271

  Ghazali, 95

  Giffard, Eva, 151

  Gilgamesh, 42

  Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 147, 281

  Ginnungagab, 40

  Girondin party, the, 182, 185

  Girton College, Cambridge, 240

  Gladstone, William, 250

  Glover, Sergeant Samuel, 174

  God the Father, 77, 81–102

  Goebbels, Paul Joseph, 265

  GoFukasaka, Emperor, 111–12

  Gold Coast, the, 44

  ‘Golden Age of Women’, the, 45

  Goldie, Jeanie, 206

  Grasso, Eleanor, 277

  Graves, Robert, 58

  Great Goddess, the, 36–56, 57–8, 60, 63–6, 76, 81, 86–7, 94, 95, 97, 102

  Great Mother, the – see ‘Great Goddess’

  Great Queen, the – see ‘Great Goddess’

  ‘Great Sun’, the, 47

  Great Trek, the, 216

  ‘greatest ass in Christendom’, the, 228

  Greece, 39, 49, 61, 68, 71, 92, 128, 129, 240

  Greeks, the, 40, 45, 46, 49, 51, 61, 66, 68, 71, 77, 105, 152, 168, 197, 248

  Green Party, the, 277

  Greer, Germaine, 275

  Grendon, Sarah, 173

  Grey, Sir Edward, 264

  Grief des Dames, 182

  Grimes Grave, 60

  Grimin, Ursala, 122

  Grimke, Sarah, 242

  Grunberger, Richard, 265

  Gutenberg, Johann, 149

  Gwynn, Nell, 170

  Hacilar, 38

  Haggard, Sir Henry Rider, 196, 197

  Hal Tarxien, 40

  Halimi, Gisela, 273

  Hall, Radclyffe, 258

  handedness, 25

  Hao Tianx’u, 277

  Harcourt, Giles and Melville, 81

  harem, the, 100–101

  Harold ‘Harefoot’, 137

  Harris, Betty, 191

  Harvard, University of, 241

  Hatshepsut, 47

  Hawaii, 157

  Hays, Mary Ludwig, ‘Pitcher Molly’, 176

  Heloise, 133

  Henri II, King of France, 133, 257

  Henry II, King of England, 113, 121

  Henry III, King of England, 127

  Hensel, Helle, 165

  Hercules, 128

  Herodotus, 46, 51, 54, 127, 153

  Herrade of Landsburg, 133

  Hildegard of Bingen, 133

  Himeko, 47

  Himmler, Heinrich, 266

  ‘Hind of Hinds’, the – see Al Hunnud, Hind

  Hindu religion, the, 40, 57, 61, 64, 96, 108, 119, 128, 215

  Hobart, Australia, 199

  Hodkins, Sarah, 173–4

  Hogg, Isabel, 191

  Ho Hsiang-ning, 269

  Holland, 260

  Hollywood, 285

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 241

  Holocaust, the, 87, 266

  homo erectus, 21

  homo sapiens, 35

  homosexuality, 58, 68, 122 – see lesbianism

  Hong Kong, 196

  Hooks, Bell, 283

  horticulture, 39, 64–5, 66

  Horus, 47

  housework – see women, work

  Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim, 84, 133

  Hudson Bay Company, the, 31, 213

  Hugonnai-Wartha, Vilma, 241

  Huitzilopochtli, 66

  human sacrifice, 40, 70–71, 212

  Hungary, 241, 248

  Hunt, Harriet, 241

  Hunt, ‘Orator’, 237

  hunting, 21–34

  Husenbolz, Katherine, 165

  Hutchinson, Anne, 161–2

  Huxley, Thomas, 29, 239, 240

  Hypatia, 77, 280

  Hywel, Dda, 62

  Iasion, 43

  Ibarruri, Dolores, ‘La Pasionaria’, 270

  Ibo, the, 165

  Iceland, 242, 248, 277

  Iceni, the, 50

  Ichikama, Fusaye, 242

  Igor I, 85

  Ilamtecuhtli, 70

  Inanna, 36–7, 42

  Incas, the, 149

  India, 39, 40, 47, 61, 71, 83, 92, 100, 111, 112–13, 117, 119–20, 128, 129, 138, 144, 150, 162, 163, 164, 194, 196, 203, 205, 222, 240, 241, 271, 277

  Indian Mutiny, the, 217–18

  Indonesia, 28

  Indus Valley, the, 37

  Industrial Revolution, the, 186–95, 196, 225, 230, 236, 256

  infant mortality, 250

  initiation rituals, 58–9

  Institutes of Mana, The, 64

  International Feminist Congress, 275

  International Socialist Women’s Congress, the, 280

  Ionian women, the, 49

  Iran, 50, 284

  Iraq, 33, 36, 38, 91, 209

  Ireland, 40, 44, 63, 101, 112, 131, 151, 194, 267, 273

  Irene, Empress, 138–9

  Iriti, 65

  Iron Age, the, 60

  Ishtar, 40, 42, 43, 63

  Isis, 37, 43, 55, 60, 82, 129

  Islam, 81–102, 105, 109, 110, 115, 126, 128, 209, 284

  ‘Isotta, the Divine’ – see Nogarola, Isotta

  Israel, 271, 277

  Israelites, the, 47, 92

  Isturitz, 33

  Italy, 61, 137, 139, 140, 141, 143
, 168, 238

  Ivan III, Tsar of Russia, 149

  Ivan IV, ‘the Terrible’, 118

  Jacobin party, the, 185

  Jacobs, Aletta, 260

  Jael, 266

  Jamaica, 210

  Jamestown, Virginia, 150, 173, 198

  Japan, 47, 97, 101, 106, 111, 129, 136, 163, 164, 242, 247

  Japan, Emperor of, 129

  Jebb, Louisa, 209

  Jefferson, Thomas, 251

  Jeffreys, Judge, 122–3

  Jehovah, 84

  Jeremiah, 85

  Jericho, 38

  Jerome, Saint, 98, 132, 133

  Jerusalem, 85, 137

  Jesus – see Christ

  Jesus of Nazareth, 286

  Jewel, the, 161

  Jews, the, 48, 81, 83, 84, 85, 87, 105, 109, 121, 158, 162, 167, 261

  jilimi, the, 126

  Joan of Arc, 149, 268

  Johannesburg, California, 210

  Johanson, Donald, 28, 30

  John, King of England, 114, 127

  John, Saint, 81

  Johnson, Sir William, 213

  Johnston, Jill, 276

  Judah, 85

  Judaism, 81–102, 103, 105, 109, 110, 157

  ‘Judgement of Apollo’, the, 68

  Judges, 47

  Judith, 48

  ‘Julias, the’ – see Julia Augusta, Julia Domna, Julia Maesa

  Julia Augusta, 53

  Julia Domna, 73

  Julia Maesa, 73

  Jung, Carl, 59

  Juno, 37

  jus primae noctis, 111, 253

  Justinian, Prince, 74

  ‘Jutland cauldron’, the, 44

  Ka’aba, the, 86–7

  Kafe, the, 109

  Kalahari Desert, the, 215

  Kali, 40–41, 129, 277

  Kali-Ma – see Kali

  Kama Kalpa, 96

  K’ang K’o-ch’ing, 269

  Karnak, 62

  Kashmir, 196

  Kayaba Indians, the, 36

  Kaye, M. M., 208

  Keats, John, 49

  Kehajia, Kalliopi, 240

  Khadijah, 87, 89

  Khomeini, Ayatollah, 284

  Kidron, 94

  Kikuyu, the, 66

  Kildare, Abbess of, 131

  ‘Kinde, Kirche, Küche’, 265–6

  King Kong, 25, 285

  King, Martin Luther, 284

  King Solomon’s Mines, 196, 197

  Kingston, Jamaica, 210

  Kipling, Rudyard, 197, 205, 208

  Kipling, Trix, 208

  Koedt, Anne, 275

  Koran, the, 90, 97, 101, 110, 118, 249

  Kovalskaya, Elisaveta, 269

  Kremer, Katherine, 165

  Krishna, 128

  !Kung bushmen, the, 22, 32

  K’ung Fu-Tze, 99

  Kurds, the, 153

  Kurssnerin, Mary, 121

  Kuruman Valley, the, 215

  La Bruyère, Jean de, 154, 193

  La Chinçade, 213

  La Malinche, 213

  ‘La Pasionaria’ – see Ibarruri, Dolores

  La Vendida – see La Malinche

  Labé, Louise, 141

  Ladies’ National Association, the, 254

  ‘Ladies of Salerno’, the, 167

  ‘Lady’, the – see Great Goddess, the

  ‘Lady of the Mercians’, the, 138

  ‘Lady with the Hammer’, the, 232

  ‘Lady with the Lamp’, the, 232

  ‘lady of leisure’, the, 230

  ‘Lady of Victory’, the – see Great Goddess, the

  Lakata women, the, 283

  Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 175

  Lancaster, Professor, C. S., 30

  Language of Flowers, The, 230

  Lantmennyn, Frau Nese, 165

  Lahore, 215

  Lapland, 136

  Lars Porsenna, 50

  Lawrence, D. H., 157

  Latin America, 268

  Le Mans, 118

  Lerida, 53

  Lerner, Gerder, 17, 287

  Lerner, Max, 264

  Leroi-Gourhan, André, 38

  lesbianism, 132, 256–8

  Leviticus, 109, 111

  Lexington, battle of, 172

  Linck, Catharina Margaretha, 257

  ‘little woman’, the, 230

  Livingstone, David, 72, 206, 207

  Livingstone, Mary, 207–8

  Liubatovitch, Vera, 269

  London, England, 157, 169, 170, 181, 194, 198, 199, 209, 264

  London Emigration Committee, the, 199

  London, University of, 29, 224

  Long March, the, 269

  Lorde, Audre, 277

  Lorenz, Konrad, 30

  Louis XVI, King of France, 179, 184

  Luchu Islands, the, 165

  ‘Lucy’, 28

  Luftwaffe, the, 266

  Luquet, G-H., 34

  Luther, Martin, 103, 246

  Luxemburg, Rosa, 265, 280

  Lycopithecu, 29

  Lydia of Philippi, 88

  Lydia, Egypt, 153

  Lyell, Charles, 237

  Lyme, the siege of, 177, 178

  ‘Lyons School’, the, 141

  Lytton, Edward Bulwer, 178

  Maachah, 94

  Maccabees, the, 87

  McIntyre, Vonda, 27

  McKesky, Catherine, 112

  Maedbh, Queen, 50

  Maeve, Queen – see Maedbh

  Magellan, Ferdinand, 150

  Mailer, Norman, 57

  Malay Peninsula, the, 165

  Mali, 126–7

  Malleus Maleficarum, 136

  Malhan, Salaym Bint, 89

  Malta, 40

  Man the Hunter, 19–35

  Manchu dynasty, the, 150, 269

  Mandarins, the, 142

  Manifeste des 343, Le, 273

  Manipur, 164

  Mansa Musa, Emperor, 127

  Manus, the, 73

  Mao Tse-Tung, 270

  Maori, the, 27

  Marathon, battle of, 55

  Marcian, General, 73–4

  Marduk, 57, 65

  Marie Antoinette, 179, 185

  Marin, Jeanne, 179

  ‘Marianne’, 186

  Markdale, Jean, 59

  ‘Market Queen’, the, 216

  ‘marriage-mating’ (banfheis rigi), 63–4

  Marshall, John, 199

  Marshall, Professor, 224

  Martin, Sir Theodore, 221

  Martin of Tours, Saint, 98

  Marx, Karl, 280

  Mary Magdalene, 163

  Maryland, 197, 201

  Massachusetts, 199, 271

  Massagetae, the, 50

  ‘Master of British midwifery’, the, 252

  ‘Master King’, the – see K’ung Fu-Tze

  Mata-Devi, 39

  Mata Hari, 265

  Matamba, 138

  Mather, Cotton, 240

  matriarchy, 45–56, 59, 73, 165, 216, 267

  Matrimonial Chronicle, The, 199

  Maxims of Ptah Hotep, The, 49

  Mayflower, the, 197

  Mead, Margaret, 59, 264

  Mecca, 87, 91

  Mediterranean, the, 37, 51

  Medusa, 128

  Meir, Golda, 277

  Melanesia, 164

  Melisande, Queen, 137

  Meneptha, King, 62

  menstrual taboos, 72, 104

  menstruation – see Women

  Mesopotamia, 92

  Mesopotamians, the, 77

  Metcalfe, Sir Thomas, 206

  Mexico, 47, 213, 268

  Mexican War of Independence, the, 268

  Mhaol, Grainne, 138

  Middle Ages, the, 75, 118, 124, 126–7, 137, 145, 156, 187

  Middletown, Mass., 175

  Mil, the sons of, 65

  Mill, John Stuart, 236

  Millet, Kate, 275

  Milo, 76

  Milton, John, 134

  Minoan civilisation,
the, 37, 55

  Mitchell, Alice, 257

  Moffat, Ann, 203

  Moffat, Mary, 215

  Mohawks, the, 213

  Mogul – see Mughal dynasty, the

  ‘monkey man, the’, 238

  Monomini Indians, the, 48

  monotheism, 46, 81–102, 103, 110

  Monroe, Marilyn, 211

  Montaigne, Michel de, 182

  Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 239

  Montezuma, 98

  Montgomery, Alabama, 284

  Montana, 200

  Mongolian tribes, the, 105, 149

  Moon Goddess, the, 36, 44, 66

  More, Sir Thomas, 240

  Morocco, 117

  Morrigan, the, 40

  Morrison, Toni, 283

  Moses, 105

  Morris, Desmond, 29

  Mother Goddess, the – see Great Goddess, the

  ‘Mother of Life and Death’, the – see Great Goddess, the

  Mother of the Maccabees, the, 87

  Mother of Parliaments, the, 233, 237

  ‘mother-right’, the, 76, 89

  Mousterian sites, the, 32

  Mughal dynasty, the, 138, 150

  Muhammad, 82, 87, 90, 91, 92, 94, 95, 106, 110, 116

  Munduguma, the, 73

  Mundurucu, the, 104–5

  Murasaki, Lady, 129–30

  Mysore, 164

  Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm, The, 275

  Naidu, Sarojini, 241

  Naples, 181

  Napoleon Buonaparte, 229, 250

  Natal, 216

  Natchez Indians, the, 47

  National American Woman Suffrage Association, the, 236

  National Organisation of Women, the, 275

  National Reichstag of Germany, the, 265

  National Women’s Liberation Conference of Britain, the, 275

  National Women’s Political Caucus, the, 275

  ‘nature of woman’, the – see woman’s nature

  Navajo, the, 107

  Nazism, 265–6

  Neanderthal, the, 32–5

  Neger desert, the, 32

  ‘Neolithic Revolution’, the, 60

  Neumann, Erich, 36

  Neva River, the, 269

  New Britain, 164

  New Hanover, 164

  New Hebrides, the, 212

  New Mexico, 107

  New South Wales Corps, the, 202

  New Testament, the, 94

  New World, the, 23, 150, 152, 176, 178, 198, 249, 250

  New York, 277

  New York Gazette, The, 173

  New Zealand, 240, 242

  Newcastle, Duchess of, 192

  Nhongo, Joyce ‘Teurai Ropa’ (‘Spill-Blood’), 270

  Nicaragua, 164

  Nicholson, Dr John, 30

  Nigeria, 138, 165

  Nightingale, Florence, 232, 256

  Nijo, Lady, 111–12

  Nile, the, 37

  Nineveh, 42, 43

  Nogarola, Ginevra, 143

  Nogarola, Isotta, 143

  Norfolk, England, 60

  Northampton, England, 137

  Northanger Abbey, 149

  Norton, Caroline, 223

  Norway, 40, 137, 242

  Notorious, 285

  nu-Gig, the, 54

  nunneries – see religious sisterhoods

  Nur Jahan, Empress, 138

  Nuremberg, public executioner of, 122

  Nut of Egypt, 40

  Nzinga, Queen, 138

  Oceania, 21

 

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