Alexander Theroux - Darconville’s Cat

Boccaccio’s Corbaccio ; the Marquis de Sade’s Oxtiern, ou les malheurs de libertinage; The Withered Punk by Joseph Addison; Nosros Thinleia ; Tertullian’s “On the Veiling of Virgins”; John Lydgate’s “Bycorne and Chichevache”; Montherlant’s Sur les femmes ; the Jewish apocryphal Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs ; Durtal’s History of the Maréchal Gilles de Rais; John Knox’s The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (1558); Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey’s “The Frailtie and Hurtfulnes of Beautie” (1535); Jacques Le Clercq’s The Case of Aristide de Saint Hemme ; Pere Torrellas’s “Copias de las Calidades de las Donnas” (1458); Aristotle’s Master Piece ; William Acton’s The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs ; the sixteenth-century sermon, “Slovo Zlykh Zhenach”; Alistair Crowley’s Confessions ; Martino Schurigio’s Muliebra Historico-Medica ; Odo of Cluny’s Collations ; K. Dalton’s Menstruation and Crime .

Antoine de la Sale’s Les Quinze Joyes de mariage ; Sâr Peladen’s How to Become a Fairy ; the Works of Gazeus; Ronald Firbank’s The Wavering Disciple ; The Poems of Sir Edward Sherburne; Franco Sacchetti’s Il Trecento Novette ; Max Funke’s Are Women Human ?; Der Misogyne, oder Der Feind des weiblichen Geschlechts by Gotthold Lessing; William Blake’s “My Spectre”; The Koran ; E. J. Dingwall’s The American Woman ; The Monographs of the Pseudo-Clementine; The Cluniac Manifestos; A. Audollent’s Defixionum Tabettae (1904); Strato’s “Musa Puerilis”; C. L. Moore’s Shambleau; The Alexicacon ( 1668); Li Yü’s J’ou Pou Tuan (1705); Livre des manières by Henry II’s Chaplain; The Most Delectable Nights of Straparola (“Piacevolissime Notte”); Shponka’s Dream by Nikolai Gogol.

Ercole Tasso’s Of Mariage and Wiving ; The Analects of Confucius; John Bremer’s Asexualization ; Hugh of St. Victor’s De bestiis et aliis rebus ; Rev. R. Polwhele’s The Unsex’d Females (1798); Solomon’s Proverbs ; the sixth-century poem, “Bandiúc Dubh”; The Neurotic Choice of Mate by L. Eidelberg; Orientus, the Bishop of Auch’s Monitoria ; Samuel Rowland’s “Tis Merrie When Gossips Meete” (1602); Richard Steele’s Spectator % 510; P. J. Mobius’s Ausgewählte werke ; Pierre Christophe Cardinal Théroux-d’Arconville’s The Shakeing of the Sheets (1574); John Skelton’s “The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummying”; Sir Comyn Berkely’s Ten Teachers ; Joseph Swetnam’s The Arraignment of Leivde, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women (1615); St. John Chrysostom’s “Homily 26 on I Corinthians,” “Homily 15 Concerning the Statutes,” and “An Exhortation to Theodore After His Fall” ( Nicene Fathers , 2, v); Robert Herrick’s Waste ; Bruno’s De gli eroici furori (1585); Martial d’Auvergne’s Arrests d’Amour ; J. P. Jacobsen’s Marie Grubbe (1876); August Strindberg’s En häxa (1890); Alexander Pushkin’s Gavriliada .

John Cordy Jeaffreson’s A Woman in Spite of Herself (1872); The Fairy Tales of Fouqué; Paracelsus’s Werke ; Mach’s “Anti-Metaphysical Remarks”; George Chapman’s Bussy d’Ambois (1607); Lorenzo Veniero’s La Puttana errante; Tom Tyler and His Wife ; St. Clement of Rome’s “Two Epistles Concerning Virginity”; John Marston’s The Insatiate Countess ; a chaplet of Weddirburne’s “My Love Was False and Full of Flattery”; John Heywood’s A Merry Play Between Johan Johan, the Husband, Tyb, his Wife, and Sir Johan, the Priest (1533); Richard de Bury’s Philobiblion ; Quevedo’s Mujer puntiaguda con enaguas ( 1608); Otto Weininger’s Geschlecht und Charakter (1903); Jean de Meung’s Roman de la Rose (ca. 1300); Andrew Peto’s “The Demonic Mother Imago in the Jewish Religion”; Stobaeus’s Florilegium; He ? by Guy De Maupassant; Richard Baxter’s A Just and Seasonable Reprehension of Naked Breasts and Shoulders (1675).

Jacopo Passavanti’s “The Mirror of True Penance”; The Precepts of Alfred ; Henry of Saxony’s De secretis mulierum ; Sir Philip Sidney’s “Fifth Song”; Aristophanes’s Thesmophoriazusae ; Dr. John Gregory’s A Father’s Legacy to His Daughters (1774); Alberti’s Satires ; The Contagious Diseases Act of 1869; Ouida’s Held in Bondage ; Anton Chekhov’s The Grasshopper; The Female Parson, or Beau in the Sudds (1730); Machiavelli’s Clizia ; The Works of Nicolas Edme Rétif de la Bretonne; Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata ; Alexander Pope’s Epistle to a Lady ; Pietro Aretino’s / Ragionamenti ; Villiers de L’Isle-Adam’s The Unknown Woman ; S. Purchas’s Microcosmus (1619); “Sadism in Women” by R. Allendy; The Complete Works of Guibert of Nogent; Jorge Luis Borges’ The Intruder; De ventre inspiciendo, or, Of the Right to Determine the Pregnancy of Widows ; Roald Dahl’s Someone Like You .

Peter Abelard’s The Story of My Misfortunes ; Waverly Root’s “Women Are Intellectually Inferior”; Erin Catharine: A Pornographic Novel by the Duke of Promesse; Edward Gosynhill’s The Schole House of Women (1541); Gustav Theodor Fechner’s Nanna ; Ned Ward’s Female Policy Detected (1716); Rudyard Kipling’s “The Female of the Species”; Boussuet’s Elévations sur les mystères; Politeuphia (1597); Gratien Dupont’s “Controversy between the Masculine and Feminine Sex” (1534); John Donne’s Juvenilia ; Géza Roheim’s “Psychoanalysis of Primitive Cultural Types”; P. M. Kaberry’s Aboriginal Women Sacred and Profane ; Heinrich von Kleist’s Kätchen von Heilbronn; The Happy Ascetic (1693) by Anthony Horneck; A Satyr Against Wooing (1698); Jonathan Swift’s “The Furniture of a Woman’s Mind”; Diogenes Laertius’s Life of Thales Milesius ; Charles Bansley’s Treatyse Shewing and Declaring the Pryde and Abuse of Women Now a Dayes; Say It with Oil by Ring Lardner; Robert W. Service’s The Ballad of the Brand .

St. Jerome’s “Against Helvidius”; Reliquiae antiquae ; Theophrastus’s On the Disadvantage of Marriage ; Edmund Goncourt’s La Fille ; Ludovico Sinistrari’s De la démonalité et des animaux incubes et succubes (1688); Sir Thomas Overbury’s “A Very, Very Woman”; Golias de conjuge non ducenda ; Everard Guilpin’s Skialethia ( 1598); The Rabbinical Origin of Women by Thomas Moore; William Dunbar’s “The Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo”; Pierre de l’Ancre’s Le Livre des princes and L’Incrédulité et mescreance du sortilège (1622); David Lindsay’s A Voyage to Arcturus ; Thomas Cooke’s Love and Revenge, or the Vintner Outwitted (1729); the Works of Wilma Meikle; A. Memmi’s L’Homme dominie ; the medieval ms. “Fraus, Fraude”; Crowne’s Sir Courtly Nice (1685); Joannes Henricus Pott’s Specimen juridicum de nefando lamiarum cum diabolo coitu (1689).

Cyril Tourneur’s The Revenger’s Tragedy; The Inevitability of Patriarchy by Steven Goldberg; Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil; The Works of the Honorable Henry Cavendish; Philippe von Hartmann’s Philosophie der ein Bewusten ; “Cackle of the Confined Women” (1663); Dr. Abel Crucifer’s Christianity and the Ages Which It Darkened [3]; Hipponax’s On the Things We Must Pass Over in Silence ; Wieth-Knudsen’s Feminism; Juris cancnici compendium ; Tippu, the Sultan of Mysore’s “Letters to Burohau-Ud-Din”; Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy ; Jacques Loubert’s La Femme devant la science; Anti-Suffrage Essays by Massachusetts Women by Ernest Bernbaum; the Albanian epic, Dukeshë e Zezë ; H. T. Finck’s Romantic Love and Personal Beauty; Patrologiae Cursus Completus ; Compton Mackenzie’s Extraordinary Women ; St. Jerome’s Book Against Jovinian; The Masque of Queen Bersabe ; the Holy Bible; Horace Walpole’s The Mysterious Mother; Grausame Frauen by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.