References to illustrated material are in bold type
and art 147
and childbirth 157
on demand 144
as genocide 141
images plates 16-21, 150, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 179, 182, 183
law on 143
and maternal death 143
Pope on 141
anarchy, History I, History II, and History III 35, 36
angel 35
Angel plate 15, 136
of darkness 108
woman 111
animal mutilation 37
Annunciation, The 58
and art 147
ape
as artist 44
In the Garden plate 4, 44
see also monkey
art
and abortion 147
food as 196
high
and centrefolds 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155
and The Annunciation 147
Virginia Woolf on 15
art theory 131
artist
ape as 44
John Paul II on 189
boar see pig
boots, symbolism 86
Brazil 6
bullfighting, and masculinity 79–80
Carnation Revolution 145
complex 161
cat, symbolism 87
Catholic Church, and contraception 140
Catholicism
spread 52
Caxias 73
celibacy 107
centrefolds, and high art 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155
childbirth 141
and abortion 157
childhood, The Company of Women 95, 96, 97, 98
Christ 51
civic humanism, and art 189–90
class, The Maids plate 1, 29, 30–31, 36
cockerel, Barcelos, symbolism 75–6
colonialism, The First Mass in Brazil 32
contraception, and the Catholic Church 140
cross-dressing see drag
dog
Amélia's Dream plate 13, 132
Bad Dog 197
Girl Lifting Up Her Skirt to a Dog 48, 49
In the Garden plate 4, 44
Looking Back 47
as man substitute 38–9, 87–8, 133
Two Girls and a Dog plate 3, 41–2
Untitled plates 5-8, 55, 57, 59, 60, 62, 63
domestic authority, The Fitting 27, 28–9, 77
drag
The Interrogator's Garden 38, 39
The Maids plate 1, 29, 30–31, 36, 38
Two Girls and a Dog plate 3
economic policy, Salazar 10
Vatican Concordat 7, 13, 69, 143, 145
Fall, The 53
family
authoritarian 8
dysfunctionality, Pregnant Rabbit Telling Her Parents 67, 68–9
Hitler on 148
ideology
God, Motherland, Family 10, 11
The Family plate 10
see also Holy Family
family life, and the priesthood 128–9
family values, and Salazar 13–14, 66–7
fascism 6
Europe 78
Italy 43
Fathers' Day 128
femininity, Virgin Mary as model of 13, 142, 171
figs, symbolism 56
flowers, symbolism 41
food, as art 196
fox, symbolism 54
gender 6
gender swap, In the Wilderness plate 14, 134, 135
genocide, abortion as 141
gladioli, symbolism 109
Great Britain, Portugal, conflict 134
Great Tradition, The, and Paula Rego 2
Guinea-Bissau 10
hare, symbolism 45
history
'History Painting', meaning 19
Holy Family, The Rest on the Flight into Egypt 125, 126, 127, 129
Holy Ghost 162
horse, symbolism 52
humours, bodily 31
imperialism, and the wolf 43
novels of Eça de Queirós 76, 100
Snow White Playing With Her Father's Trophies 76
The Cadet and His Sister plate 9, 76, 77–8
The Family plate 10
The Policeman's Daughter 84, 85, 86–7, 97–8
The Soldier's Daughter 80, 81–3, 84
Italy, fascism 43
Judaism 56
Kinder, Kücher, Kirche 13
lamb
Two Girls and a Dog plate 3
lesbianism 115
Limbo 128
love 2
Marian cult 14, 53, 83, 108, 141–2
see also Virgin Mary
Mary see Virgin Mary
masculinity 102
masturbation
Looking Back 47
masturbatory sex 100
Looking Out plate 11, 117, 118–20, 121
matricide, involuntary 146
melancholy, and the pig 31 men
dressed by women 131
The Bullfighter's Godmother 78, 79
The Cadet and His Sister plate 9, 75
mermaid, symbolism 35
mirrors, and painting 97, 98, 131
misogyny 193
monkey
Red Monkey Beats His Wife 68, 69
Wife Cuts Off Red Monkey's Tail 70, 71
mother
post-Oedipal 102
motherhood see maternity
murder, The Little Murderess 51, 53
nation
nativity, The Terminator as 138–9
New Historicism 17
nude
male 131
Oedipal son, The Cell 98, 99, 100–101
ostrich, Dancing Ostriches from Disney's 'Fantasia' 132, 133
owl, symbolism 59
ox, symbolism 53
paedophilia 151
pain, and pleasure, Love plate 22
painting
figural, figurative, difference 92–3
patriarchy 13
pelican
Sleeping 54
symbolism 53
Untitled 55
pig
and melancholy 31
The Maids plate 1, 31
popes
on abortion 141
on artists 189
Paul VI 142
Pius X 142
Pius XII 143
Portugal
abortion referendum 139
Great Britain, conflict 134
overseas empire 6–7, 130, 134, 194–5
Roman occupation 43
Spain
fascist brotherhood 28
Portuguese identity, Paula Rego 4–5, 21, 181
pregnancy 158
Pride and Prejudice 1
priesthood, and family life 128–9
prostitute 108
rabbit, Pregnant Rabbit Telling Her Parents 67
rape
anal 86
Triptych after...Hogarth 191
reproduction, and sexuality 146
Resurrection, The 51
revenge 140
revolution, definition 2
sainthood, Crivelli's Garden 107
Salazar regime
Salazar Vomiting the Homeland 24, 25
When We Used to Have a House... 25, 29
Salazarismo, and red 68, 77–8 scopophilia 149 sea
Sebastianismo 9
sexes, battle of the 2
sexuality, and reproduction 146
sin, The Sin of Father Amaro (Eça de Queiros) 90, 93–7, 98–100, 103–7, 109–16, 120, 124–5, 127, 139
Spain
Portugal
fascist brotherhood 28
sponge, symbolism 136
stork, symbolism 88
'text', meaning 16
time
Time: Past and Present 32, 33, 34–5
Two Girls and a Dog plate 3, 41–2
trees, symbolism 133
unheimlich 37
vagina 174
Vatican Concordat, and the Estado Novo 7, 13, 69, 143, 145
violence 3
Snare 50
virgin
Girl with Chickens 111, 112, 113–14
and whore 178
Virgin Mary
as model of femininity 13, 142, 171
The Ambassador of Jesus 103, 104, 105
see also Marian cult
virginity 171
female 192
male 118, 120, 155–6, 160, 161–3
Martha, Mary and Magdalene 118, 119
whore 154
and virgin 178
wolf
Two Girls and a Dog plate 3
women
and the Estado Novo 12–14, 142
Girl with Gladioli and Religious Figures 106, 107, 108–9
Hitler on 14
Yorkshire Ripper, The 193