Young boys in women's clothing played the roles of female characters.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

He's the friend of women everywhere, at least for a few of his female readers in the eighteenth century, and for many he's the very embodiment of oppressive patriarchy.

他到处都有女人缘，至少在18世纪他有不少女性读者，但对很多人来说他是压抑的男权主义的象征。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He rejects all of the advances of the women who are attracted to him but Bacchantes, the female followers of the god Bacchus, are enraged by what they take to be his coyness.

他拒绝了所有被他吸引的女性,但是巴克坎忒斯，酒神巴克斯的女追随者们，认为他这是忸怩作态，愤怒不已。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Critics argue it is a symbol of female servitude and against women's rights.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

Nobody is yet, except these women, thinking of female suffrage.

在当时,除了这些妇女本人之外,没人想过妇女也应有选举权

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

(OMITTED) Sanger and McCormick felt the female contraceptive could emancipate women.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

Now when Virginia Woolf writes that Milton's bogey has shut out the view of his female readers, she seems to be suggesting that the specter of Milton blinds women to the things that they should be seeing, the most important truths out there in the world.

当佛吉尼亚·伍尔夫写道弥尔顿的惑众谣言遮挡了,她的女性读者的目光时，她似乎是在说,弥尔顿的幽灵让女性对她们应该看到的,东西视而不见，这些东西正是世间最重要的真理。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

She says this will be her next line of inquiry whether female hormones, such as estrogen, somehow protect young women from the neurological damage created by exposure to lead.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19