How have women been historically considered? How have their stories, their bodies and their health been narrated? Words and their meanings are not neutral: they produce, reproduce and fix reality. Through the analysis of proverbs, expressions and meanings of popular culture - many of them collected in the different editions of the dictionaries of the Spanish language - María Martín reviews the thousand and one words that have contributed to constructing the feminine: how their bodies and physiological functions have been described and what roles have been granted or denied to them. Because a public woman is not the same as a public man, nor do they share the same space. Women of the party, easy, worldly, lost... or “quasi-putrid, overheated and smelly” females as the inquisitor Covarrubias insulted them when defining them. Plump or busty, frigid or nymphomaniac, witches or sanctimonious, all prostitutes in the end. Monstrous and menstruating, crybabies, hysterics, evil bitches, foxes and donkeys (spankings for all of them!) will parade through these pages, where all these evil representations of women, the (folkloric and patriarchal) incarnation of all evil, are masterfully analyzed, with humor and a lot of sarcasm.