The Female Man Allusions & Cultural References

Literary and Philosophical Figures

• Martin Luther (4.3.2) (8.10.30)
• Friedrich Engels (4.5.1)
• Sigmund Freud (4.10.16) (6.6.9) (7.2.10)
• Christopher Marlowe (5.9.2)
• William Shakespeare (5.9.2) (7.1.20)
• Irving Howe (5.9.10)
• Thomas Hardy (5.9.10)
• A.H. Maslow (5.9.11)
• Bernard Shaw (7.1.17)
• Plato (7.2.8)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (7.5.4)
• William Blake (8.9.29)
• Betty Friedan (9.7.29)
• Kate Millet (9.7.29)
• Germaine Greer (9.7.29)
• Shulamith Firestone (9.7.29)

Literary and Sociological Texts

• Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State (4.5.1)
• Geoffrey Chaucer, Parliament of Foules (4.10.21)
• Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (5.9.9)
• Walt Kelly, Pogo (5.10.5-6)
• Brandon Thomas, Charley's Aunt (6.7.1)
• John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women (7.1.3)
• Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (7.2.10)
• Gunnar Myrdal, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (7.5.1)
• Martha Finley, Elsie Dinsmore (9.7.29)
• Edith Maude Hull, The Son of the Sheik (9.7.29)

Individual Characters Named from Literature, Folklore, and Myth

• Humpty Dumpty (3.4.25)
• Aphrodite (3.2.6)
• Clarissa, from Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (3.2.6)
• Zeus (5.16.1)
• Atropos (6.9.26)
• Sleeping Beauty (6.9.26)
• Uriah Heep, from Charles Dickens's David Copperfield (7.1.3)
• Rhadamanthus (7.1.3)
• The Cheshire Cat, from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (7.1.3)
• Grendel's Mother, from Beowulf (7.1.9)
• Faust (7.1.14)
• Anna Karenina, from Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (8.7.24)
• Cinderella (8.8.1)
• Brynhildr (8.9.31) (9.6.1) (9.6.4)
• Mistresses Doasyouwouldbedoneby and Bedonebyasyoudid, from Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies (8.9.33)
• Baba Yaga (8.9.1)

Biblical References

• Jesus of Nazareth (1.8.2)
• The Angel of Pestilence (5.4.1)
• The Garden of Eden (5.17.2)
• The Prophetess Deborah (7.1.17)
• Christ on the Cross (7.2.8)
• Moses (7.2.10)
• 1 John 1.8 (7.3.1)
• Eve (8.9.19)
• Jael's name is a recurring biblical reference; the Old Testament Jael appears in Judges 4.18-24 (throughout)

Historical Figures

• Chiang Kai-shek (2.10.1)
• Soong Mei-ling, a.k.a. Madame Chiang (2.10.1)
• Genghis Khan (4.5.1) (4.11.5) (9.6.3)
• The Praetorian Guard (5.6.3)
• Aristophanes (5.6.3)
• Marie of Romania (6.5.29)
• Christopher Columbus (7.1.20)
• Alger Hiss (7.1.20)
• Mata Hari (7.1.20)
• Thomas Nashe (7.2.4)
• Moses (7.2.10)
• Joan of Arc (3.2.84) (7.5.12)
• Galileo (7.5.12)

Symphonies and Concertos

• Handel's Messiah: "Thou Art Gone Up on High" (2.8.6); "I Know that My Redeemer Liveth" (4.1.1-3)
• Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concertos (8.9.1)

Pop Culture

• Mae West (4.5.1) (9.3.1)
• Marlene Dietrich (4.5.1)
• Star Trek (4.5.1)
• John Wayne (4.13.19)
• Maureen O'Hara (4.13.19)
• Kirk Douglas (6.5.28)
• Buster Crabbe, aka Flash Gordon (7.1.17)
• Rodan (7.1.11)
• King Kong (7.1.12)
• Linus (7.2.10)
• Greta Garbo (8.2.5) (8.7.24)
• Victoria de los Angeles (9.3.3)
• Jean Arthur (9.3.1)
• Humphrey Bogart (9.4.8) (9.4.25)
• James Bond (9.4.8)
• Superman (9.4.8)
• Douglas Fairbanks (9.4.8)