Lot's Daughters: Sex, Redemption, and Women's Quest for AuthorityLot'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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Page 269
... important role for women . 2 . BILL " BOJANGLES " ROBINSON There's an abrupt , startling transition in Black's first chapter . Her father , in Shirley's little " stitches " crisis , lets her down by swooning at her bloody lip . In the ...
... important role for women . 2 . BILL " BOJANGLES " ROBINSON There's an abrupt , startling transition in Black's first chapter . Her father , in Shirley's little " stitches " crisis , lets her down by swooning at her bloody lip . In the ...
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... important point of Snowdon's monologue , though , surely puts forth the view of what has been implicit in much of my book : in the great , unfolding modern Lot story , the most important kind of intercourse between father and daughter ...
... important point of Snowdon's monologue , though , surely puts forth the view of what has been implicit in much of my book : in the great , unfolding modern Lot story , the most important kind of intercourse between father and daughter ...
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... important and still useful study , The Incest Theme in Literature and Legend : Fundamentals of a Psychology of Literary Creation , trans . Gregory C. Richter ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ . Press , 1992 ) . 3. Georgiana Donavin ...
... important and still useful study , The Incest Theme in Literature and Legend : Fundamentals of a Psychology of Literary Creation , trans . Gregory C. Richter ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ . Press , 1992 ) . 3. Georgiana Donavin ...
Contents
Part I | 5 |
Faithful Interpretations | 48 |
A Family Museum | 72 |
Copyright | |
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