Shakespeare and Feminism

In my own opinion, Shakespeare does not seem to be misogynistic. His female characters behave and are treated as it was common during the time period, but that nothing about their characters suggests that Shakespeare hated all women. Helena says at one point "you do set a scandal on my sex. Women cannot fight for love as men may do. We should be woo'd and were not made to woo." Obviously during the time period it was believed that all women were more timid then men, created to sit around looking pretty, whereas it is the men, ( like Hermia's father and Demetrius), have the ultimate say in any important decisions. Titania, although she's a powerful high-strung lady, fights with her husband, so he makes a fool out of her and she simply leaps back into his arms, thanking him for rescuing her. This seems to make a pretty strong statement about the place of women (at their husband's side), and the punishment should they disobey him (falling for an ass). The duke's wife seems to be forced into marriage because Thesues captured her from her native homeland or something, and yet she's cool with it, having a simple woman mind, or a short-term memory loss. Also, though as stated before, it's men who have to go out and do the wooing, Helena is the only one willing to be a spaniel to Demetrius. Demetrius doesn't have to demean himself for the sake of love, because he's manly. Maybe that's a little far fetched, and Demetrius just isn't trying as hard as Helena because he's already got Hermia via her father's permission. Anyway, besides the culture's general low opinions of women, I don't think Shakespeare had any unusually harsh criticisms of the fair sex.