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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson is a 1990 work about sexual decadence in Western literature and the visual arts by scholar Camille Paglia, in which she addresses major artists and writers such as Donatello, Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Emily ...
Dionysus in Bacchus by Caravaggio. The Dionysian Mysteries were a ritual of ancient Greece and Rome which sometimes used intoxicants and other trance-inducing techniques (like dance and music) to remove inhibitions. It also provided some liberation for men and women marginalized by Greek society, among which were slaves, outlaws, and non-citizens.
"By Sophia, a Person of Quality" on the cover of Woman Not Inferior to Man, 1739. "Sophia, a Person of Quality" was a pen name used by the author of two English protofeminist treatises published in the mid-18th century, following a period trend of women's histories and political tracts arguing in favor of equal rights known as the querelle des femmes.
The Grimms didn't just shy away from the feminine details of sex, their telling of the stories repeatedly highlight violent acts against women. Women die in child birth again and again in Grimms' tales — in "Snow White," "Cinderella," and "Rapunzel" — having served their societal duties by producing a beautiful daughter to replace her.
Elaine Showalter (born January 21, 1941) [1] is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues.She influenced feminist literary criticism in the United States academia, developing the concept and practice of gynocritics, a term describing the study of "women as writers".
Sexual Politics is the debut book by American writer and activist Kate Millett, based on her PhD dissertation at Columbia University. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was published in 1970 by Doubleday . It is regarded as a classic of feminism and one of radical feminism 's key texts, a formative piece in shaping the intentions of the second-wave feminist movement .
The last known major civilization to have a partnership society, the Minoan civilization of Crete, flourished during the Bronze Age over 3500 years ago. [1] Having existed even before Archaic Greece , it is one of the earliest known civilizations in Europe and is vital to recreating the timeline of Europe's history. [ 7 ]
At the beginning of the Symposium, Agathon asserts that "Dionysus will be the judge", and Dionysus is, though Alcibiades performs as a surrogate for the god. So the character, Alcibiades, who was the deciding factor in the debate in The Frogs , becomes the judge in the Symposium , and he now rules in favor of Socrates, who had been attacked by ...