Footnotes
1 The word is inexplicable here. Agonic means “Having or making no angle, having no inclination, as in ‘agonic line,’ the irregular line passing through the two magnetic poles of the earth along which the [compass] needle points directly north or south, the line of no magnetic variation” (Oxford English Dictionary).
Agonistic may be intended.2 There were some isolated precursors, such as Christine de Pizan (1365–1429).
3 Some homebound women have proved inventive and entrepreneurial. A quarter of the sales of one catalog company are in devices they have developed (Wall Street Journal 21 Oct 2004).
4 Even if these figures reflect a tendency to over-diagnose, the male-female gap remains.
5 There is No Male-Female Wage Gap. (Wall Street Journal 12 Apr 2012)
6 Through the Glass Ceiling. (Wall Street Journal 8 November 2004)
7 Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey, National Center for Education Statistics, National Vital Statistics Report, and Pew Research Center (all data 2012).
8 Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. 1993
9 The Stockholm Syndrome, primarily associated with hostages developing empathy and positive feelings toward their captors (Chapter 10).
10 The Tyranny of the Queen Bee (2 March 2013). Wall Street Journal.
11. Kerry Seagrave (1992) chronicles five centuries of women serial killers, and the Kellehers (1998) analyze 86 twentieth century America women serial killers. Alix Kirsta (1994) provides a general record of women criminals. Esther Lehnert has chronicled the increasing amount of violence by women in Germany.
12 She refers to abuse of male Iraqi prisoners by female American guards. There is nothing new in women torturers, including Nazi concentration camp guards, among the most notorious being Irma Grese, Elisabeth Vokenrath, and Herta Bothe.
13 Eller has since acknowledged that no serious archaeologist working today believes that ancient cultures were monotheist or matriarchal.