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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... girl . " They'll teach me a lot I don't know " ( 118 ) . These two , the man and the girl , make an odd , but important couple in modern Lot history . She hun- gers for love and knowledge , and he becomes her favorite teacher - she ...
... girl . " They'll teach me a lot I don't know " ( 118 ) . These two , the man and the girl , make an odd , but important couple in modern Lot history . She hun- gers for love and knowledge , and he becomes her favorite teacher - she ...
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... girl may be small and quiet , and look up to her father ; a girl may be smart as a whip , tough - minded , firm , rational , passionate , and vengeful , and she may serve as a potent alter - ego to her father ; a girl may become the ...
... girl may be small and quiet , and look up to her father ; a girl may be smart as a whip , tough - minded , firm , rational , passionate , and vengeful , and she may serve as a potent alter - ego to her father ; a girl may become the ...
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... girl in generalized terms , and he , a good progressive man , still could not help seeing her as another class of being real but lacking individuality and interchangeable with thousands . To save such girls from violence , he felt he ...
... girl in generalized terms , and he , a good progressive man , still could not help seeing her as another class of being real but lacking individuality and interchangeable with thousands . To save such girls from violence , he felt he ...
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