 Similarly, women have been treated as a distinct category by various misogynist writings, perhaps best exemplified by Richard Polwhele's "The Unsex'd Females", a critique in verse of women writers at the end of the 18th century with a particular focus on Mary Wollstonecraft and her circle.Earlier discussion of women's broader cultural contributions can be found as far back as the 8th century BC, when Hesiod compiled "Catalogue of Women" (attr.