[./https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel|Hegel's]] view of women can be characterized as misogynistic.<ref>{{cite book|last=Gallagher|first=Shaun|title=Hegel, history, and interpretation|year=1997|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-0-7914-3381-2|page=235|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OdlvNHnC6KMC&pg=PA235&dq=Hegel+misogyny+misogynistic#v=onepage&q&f=false}}</ref> Passages from Hegel's ''[./https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elements_of_the_Philosophy_of_Right [Elements of the Philosophy of Right]]'' illustrate the criticism:<ref>{{Cite book | url = https://books.google.com/?id=rJqm5iQcsqoC&pg=PA3&dq=Hegel+misogyny+misogynistic#v=onepage&q&f=false | title =Feminist Reflections on the History of Philosophy | isbn = 978-1-4020-2488-7 | author1 = Alanen | first1 = Lilli | last2 = Witt | first2 = Charlotte | year = 2004}}</ref>
{{Quote|text=Women are capable of education, but they are not made for activities which demand a universal faculty such as the more advanced sciences, philosophy and certain forms of artistic production... Women regulate their actions not by the demands of universality, but by arbitrary inclinations and opinions.}}
