Lot's Daughters: Sex, Redemption, and Women's Quest for AuthorityStanford University Press, 2005 - 432 sider Lot's Daughters explores the relationship of fathers and daughters and of older men and younger females in history, life, art, and culture. This ambitious, daringly original book shows how humanity has remembered and been formed by Lot's daughters—how the shocking biblical text describing the crucial relationship between that patriarch and his daughters has haunted the human imagination and shaped history and behavior right down to the present. Robert Polhemus terms this ongoing human drama—the mutual attraction between young females and older males—the "Lot complex," and illustrates his theory with a wide-ranging series of portraits that analyze and dramatize the lives and work of famous men and women who, in very diverse ways, have made the world care more deeply about the destiny of daughters. In witty, probing chapters on an entertaining selection of daughters that includes women as varied as Lewis Carroll's Alice, Shirley Temple, Mia Farrow, and Monica Lewinsky, Polhemus tells the story of men's ambivalent desire for young women and of women's quest for authority. It is an indispensable work on male-female relations. |
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... Jane Eyre , you see that Woolf's words actually do point to historical needs of ambitious women and show why Jane Eyre has seemed such a prophetic figure . A generation of feminists , in the decades after World War II , rediscov- ered ...
... Jane Eyre , you see that Woolf's words actually do point to historical needs of ambitious women and show why Jane Eyre has seemed such a prophetic figure . A generation of feminists , in the decades after World War II , rediscov- ered ...
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... Jane : Mrs. Reed dies unmourned ; John Reed ends up a bankrupt suicide ; the Reverend Mr. Brocklehurst suffers the " mor- tifying " public exposure ; Bertha kills herself burning down the house ; St. John Rivers burns up trying to ...
... Jane : Mrs. Reed dies unmourned ; John Reed ends up a bankrupt suicide ; the Reverend Mr. Brocklehurst suffers the " mor- tifying " public exposure ; Bertha kills herself burning down the house ; St. John Rivers burns up trying to ...
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... Jane Austen , Persuasion , vol . 5 , The Novels of Jane Austen , 3rd ed . , ed . R. W. Chapman ( Oxford : Oxford Univ . Press ) , 82 . 2. Mansfield Park , a work of immense consequence , points the way to , and suggests an agenda for ...
... Jane Austen , Persuasion , vol . 5 , The Novels of Jane Austen , 3rd ed . , ed . R. W. Chapman ( Oxford : Oxford Univ . Press ) , 82 . 2. Mansfield Park , a work of immense consequence , points the way to , and suggests an agenda for ...
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