Rhyming women dead: Restoration satires on women -- The better women: the amazon myth and Hudibras -- "That lost thing, love": women and impotence in Rochester's poetry -- Rara avis in terris: translations of Juvenal's sixth satire -- "The sex's flight": women and time in Swift's poetry -- Enemies and enviers: minor eighteenth-century satires -- "The glory, jest, and riddle of the town": women in Pope's poetry.