Editing Misogyny (section)

==Origins==
Misogyny likely arose at the same time as [[patriarchy]]: three to five thousand years ago at the start of the [[Bronze Age]]. The three main monotheistic religions of [[Judaism]], [[Christianity]] and [[Islam]] promoted patriarchal societal structures, and used misogyny to keep women at a lower status.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Mohl |first=Allan S. |date=Summer 2015 |title=Monotheism: Its Influence on Patriarchy and Misogyny |journal=[[Journal of Psychohistory]] |volume=43 |number=1 |pages=1–20 |url=https://psychohistory.com/summer-2015-vol-43-issue-1/ |access-date=13 October 2021 |archive-date=27 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211027182109/https://psychohistory.com/summer-2015-vol-43-issue-1/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Manne2019"/> Misogyny gained strength in the [[Middle Ages]], especially in Christian societies.<ref>{{cite book |last2=Ferguson |first2=Frances |first1=R. Howard |last1=Bloch |date=1989 |title=Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-06544-4}}</ref> In parallel to these, misogyny was also practised in societies such as the Romans, Greeks, and the tribes of the [[Amazon Basin]] and [[Melanesia]], who did not follow a monotheistic religion. Nearly every human culture contains evidence of misogyny.{{sfnp|Gilmore|2001|pp=17–35}}

Anthropologist David D. Gilmore argues that misogyny is rooted in men's conflicting feelings: men's existential dependence on women for [[:wikt:procreation|procreation]], and men's fear of women's power over them in their times of male weakness, contrasted against the deep-seated needs of men for the love, care and comfort of women—a need that makes the men feel vulnerable.{{sfnp|Gilmore|2001|pp=1–16}}

[[Angela Saini]] notes that a large proportion of women in ancient societies were [[Bride kidnapping|kidnapped brides]] from other cultures. Such a woman was often forced to marry a man who had killed her family. Misogynistic suspicion in ancient Greece and elsewhere is to some degree explained by male anxiety that women would some day revolt against their captors.<ref name=Saini2023>{{cite book |first=Angela |last=Saini |title=The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality |publisher=Beacon Press |location=Boston |isbn=978-0-8070-1454-7 |year=2023}}</ref>{{rp|139}} Saini argues that patriarchy and gender stereotyping emerged at the same time as the [[State (polity)|state]].<ref name=Saini2023 />{{rp|118–119}}