Misogyny
Misogyny (pronounced /mɪˈsɒdʒɪni/) is hatred (or contempt) of women. Misogyny is parallel to misandry  the hatred of men.
Misogyny is also comparable to misanthropy, which is the hatred of humanity generally. The antonym of misogyny is philogyny, love towards women.
Marcus Tullius Cicero reports that Greek philosophers considered misogyny to be caused by gynophobia, a fear of women.
In the late 20th century, feminist theorists proposed misogyny as both a cause and result of patriarchal social structures.
Christianity
Katherine M. Rogers in The Troublesome Helpmate argues that the Pauline epistles in the New Testament contain texts that have historically been used by some Christian misogynists.
The foundations of early Christian misogyny  its guilt about sex, its insistence on female subjection, its dread of female seduction  are all in St. Paul's epistles. They provided a convenient supply of divinely inspired misogynistic texts for any Christian writer who chose to use them; his statements on female subjection were still being quoted in the twentieth century opponents of equality for women.
Islam
Taj Hashmi discusses misogyny in relation to Muslim culture, and Bangladesh specifically, in Popular Islam and Misogyny: A Case Study of Bangladesh.
Thanks to the subjective interpretations of the Quran (almost exclusively by men), the preponderance of the misogynic mullahs and the regressive Shariah law in most “Muslim†countries, Islam is synonymously known as a promoter of misogyny in its worst form. Although there is no way of defending the so-called “great†traditions of Islam as libertarian and egalitarian with regard to women, we may draw a line between the Quranic texts and the corpus of avowedly misogynic writing and spoken words by the mullah having very little or no relevance to the Quran.
