Misogyny is one means they have for fighting against reductive readings, preserving the opportunity for understanding texts by occupying the many different perspectives offered by each sentence, regardless of whether a perspective is ostensibly maligned or approved by the text as a whole. Otway's she-tragedy eroticizes rape for the sake of making it attractive, rape representing capitalist entrepreneurial practices in displaced form. Misogyny is not intrinsically erotic but has been eroticized and then used to figure capitalist relations. Mandeville and Lillo successfully idealize the businessman by representing female prostitutes as the abject other. They do not have the status of canonical texts, even though reading works by Swift and Pope as unambiguous, as if they simply expressed virulent misogyny, has indeed worked to canonize Augustan satire.
Sexism takes many forms, including the idealization of women.
It is not the case that canonical texts necessarily degrade women. An underlying fantasy of the material soul sustains her faith in her own writing.