History Main / NoWomansLand

* ''Literature/{{Ape and Essence}}'' by Aldous Huxley has a post-apocalyptic dystopian society whose ReligionOfEvil labels women as vessels of the Unholy Spirit and breeders of filth. If they give birth to deformed babies (which they usually do), they are brutally whipped and their babies are ritually sacrificed to Belial.

* In ''Literature/TheMister'', Albania comes across as a misogynistic hellhole; women are rarely seen out on the streets because it's not proper, they're expected to wait on their husbands or fathers hand and foot, domestic violence against women is common, and [[spoiler:Alessia]]'s father sold her into marriage without consulting her.
* Armethalieh in ''Literature/TheObsidianTrilogy'' is this, to the extent that the high mages go as far as to erase women mages' memories and block parts of their brains rather than let them use -- or even admit that they are capable of using -- magic.

* A ''Series/DrPhil'' arc featured a girl (about 19) who moved to the Middle East to marry a boy she'd met on the Internet. The point was heavily delivered that if she married him while over there, she would lose all her rights as a person. So her parents smuggled her back and revoked her passport and had her date an American boy. It was basically said by Phil that Arab men [[MarsNeedsWomen seek]] out [[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt American women]] to brainwash and hold hostage. In another episode where the girl was featured, it turned out they were right.

* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Duane Adelier's home country of Alderode doesn't give you a ton of options if you're female; women are meant to be wives and mothers (or if they're of the Platinum caste, 'encouraged' to go into the sex trade) and little else. They're not expected to have jobs, and they're not allowed to own property, vote, or even use pymary, this world's version of magic. It says a lot when a woman's best option for real power and autonomy is to choose to become a Third Option and legally become a man; plenty of women from the Copper caste, who are relatively more liberated thanks to their long lifespans, take this route. The other countries on the continent, particularly the matriarchal Cresce, condemn such misogyny.

* ''The Mage With Special Circumstances Wants To Live Peacefully'' is one of the very rare positive examples.

%%* Women are forbidden from entering the Mount Kurama stronghold, home of the Tengu, in ''Manga/KamisamaKiss.'' Naturally, Nanami doesn't let that stop her.
* ''Literature/OrcEroica'':
** Orc territory, since for a long time the all-male orcs abducted women to rape and impregnate. While (law-abiding) orcs limit themselves to female criminals given to them by other races, it's still very unusual to find any other women there willingly.
** Succubus territory could be considered the inversion of this, as (most of the time) the only men there are kept as food. It wasn't until recently that the succubi even gave their captives decent living conditions.

* The Old Arcadia Empire in ''Literature/UndefeatedBahamutChronicle''. Women weren't allowed to use [[MiniMecha Drag-Rides]], commoner women were often abducted by male nobles to satisfy their desires, noble women were treated as tools for political marriages, and young girls (regardless of status) were subjected to horrific experiments to develop weapons. Women who were unable to give birth were treated even worse, as shown by how Raffi Atismata was treated poorly by her own family for getting a childbirth-preventing disease. From later information in the light novels, this society may have been a reaction to [[spoiler:the Holy Arcadia Empire, which was toppled and replaced by the Old Arcadia Empire in a revolution. The known leaders of the Holy Arcadia Empire have all been female, though it's unclear if their society was actually matriarchal]].

* The ComicBook/FantasticFour ally Thundra (of LadyLand Femizonia) often finds herself pitted against Mahkizo of Machus, a world that is violently misogynistic. The two timelines are eventually [[MergedReality merged]]; it's debatable if anyone's really any better off since the resulting world is still violent and deadly. There was one point where they learned to ''love'' each other, [[ContinuitySnarl but that seems to have been forgotten]].
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':

* ''Film/{{Chaos Walking|2021}}'': Karyssa Hewitt's journal paints a grim picture of Prentisstown for women on the planet of New World; [[spoiler:many of the men slowly turned on them due to never knowing what they thinking while they couldn't hide anything they thought (on New World men and ''only'' men are afflicted with "Noise", causing them to visually and audibly project their thoughts). [[SinisterMinister Aaron]] worsened this, preaching that women lacked Noise because they have no souls among other things. David introduced a curfew for the women and their lives became increasingly restricted, ultimately culminating in the men ''murdering'' all the women (Todd Hewitt was led to believe the women were killed in a war with the natives of New World until he learns the AwfulTruth)]].

* ''Ape and Essence'' by Aldous Huxley has a post-apocalyptic dystopian society whose ReligionOfEvil labels women as vessels of the Unholy Spirit and breeders of filth. If they give birth to deformed babies (which they usually do), they are brutally whipped and their babies are ritually sacrificed to Belial.

* In Raymond E Feist's ''Literature/TheRiftwarCycle'', there is an ethnic group called the Ashuntai who treat their women as property, to the point where women can be punished for wearing clothes. This makes it all the more interesting when we learn that they are part of the same empire as another Ethnic group, the Brijaners, who worship women as sacred.

* The short story "Taboos" by Mary Caraker. Among other things, women are forbidden literacy.

* The modern Island of Yamatai in ''VideoGame/{{Tomb Raider|2013}}'' is a literal no-woman's land because the male inhabitants would promptly sacrifice any females who had the misfortune to wash ashore in an attempt to appease the Goddess Himiko.

* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'' Duane Adelier's home country of Alderode doesn't give you a ton of options if you're female; women are meant to be wives and mothers (or if they're of the Platinum caste, 'encouraged' to go into the sex trade) and little else. They're not expected to have jobs, and they're not allowed to own property, vote, or even use pymary, this world's version of magic. It says a lot when a woman's best option for real power and autonomy is to choose to become a Third Option and legally become a man; plenty of women from the Copper caste, who are relatively more liberated thanks to their long lifespans, take this route. The other countries on the continent, particularly the matriarchal Cresce, condemn such misogyny.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamKnight'', the flashback sequences of the "Working Through Pain" vignette where Bruce Wayne goes to India for pain-control training seemed to be set in one of these. The female mentor Bruce Wayne seeks out is a pariah by her local community because she dared to undergo TrainingFromHell reserved for Men Only. This is in spite of the fact that in real-life India, women who make it as female warriors are highly respected and have led ''entire armies'' as far back as the ''twelfth century''.

* ''Literature/VictoriaANovelOf4thGenerationWar'' is strongly implied to be this as the Victorians are harshly opposed to feminism and hostile to the idea of women working and particularly in the military, [[StayInKitchen in favor of minding their 'sphere' of the home. ]] When the Victorians defeat the armies of LadyLand Azania, those who do not become good housewives are sold into slavery in the Middle East to "experience ''real'' patriarchal oppression." Not to mention the novel begins and ends with a woman being burned at the stake for claiming to be a Christian bishop. [[AuthorTract Note that the narrative portrays all of this positively.]]

* ''Literature/VictoriaANovelOf4thGenerationWar'' is strongly implied to be this as the Victorians are harshly opposed to feminism and hostile to the idea of women working and particularly in the military, in favor of minding their 'sphere' of the home. When the Victorians defeat the armies of LadyLand Azania, those who do not become good housewives are sold into slavery in the Middle East to "experience ''real'' patriarchal oppression." Not to mention the novel begins and ends with a woman being burned at the stake for claiming to be a Christian bishop. [[AuthorTract Note that the narrative portrays all of this positively.]]