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 148
... play can get at basic realities . Another is I'm playing my father's game . I'm speaking through his mask . When people question children , whether they know it or not , they generally like to play the ventriloquist before anatomically ...
... play can get at basic realities . Another is I'm playing my father's game . I'm speaking through his mask . When people question children , whether they know it or not , they generally like to play the ventriloquist before anatomically ...
Page 152
... play with , and take seri- ously imaginary figures . Whatever his faults as a father and man , whatever just and ... plays were established : Young Men , June 1826 ; Our Fellows , July 1827 ; Island- ers , December 1827. Those are our ...
... play with , and take seri- ously imaginary figures . Whatever his faults as a father and man , whatever just and ... plays were established : Young Men , June 1826 ; Our Fellows , July 1827 ; Island- ers , December 1827. Those are our ...
Page 156
... play to plays . And yet : bed play means secret play and is very nice , very strange ; it's nature is indelible — that's not a bad epigram for the two most famous Brontë novels . Imagine the context : two motherless , budding ge- niuses ...
... play to plays . And yet : bed play means secret play and is very nice , very strange ; it's nature is indelible — that's not a bad epigram for the two most famous Brontë novels . Imagine the context : two motherless , budding ge- niuses ...
Contents
Part I | 5 |
Faithful Interpretations | 48 |
A Family Museum | 72 |
Copyright | |
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