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misogyny

[mi′säj·ə·nē]
(psychology)
Hatred of women.
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He gives an example of a very influential book (kitab kuning) written by a nineteenth-century Muslim scholar, Nawawi al-Bantani, Kitab Uqud al-Lujayn, in which the author has quoted unreliable sources to support his misogynic views.
Mayhew wants to rescue Aristotle from charges of misogynic ideology.
With regard to the Corbaccio, Boccaccio's most problematic work, Surdich offers three possible explanations for the work's title, and seeks to explain how this misogynic text can be reconciled with the rest of Boccaccio's oeuvre.
The postmodern adoration of Nietzsche is thus viewed as a distortion of fundamentally misogynist positions: 'By toning down Nietzsche's misogynic comments to the abstract level alone, to the point where they come to mean the opposite of what he manifestly intends, and by construing him as writing "as a woman" when he is actually at his most bullish, postmodern readings have produced an interpretation which is misleading and incomplete' (p.
A sop to cultural studies yields the insight that "There is misogynic intent, to be sure, in many portrayals of" femme fatales.
I have had a stomach full of a misogynic church, which has so internalized the myth of evil Eve that it cannot recognize a human soul separate from its gender, and a church of male privilege that rationalizes and justifies the most irrational male behavior.
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