The Female Body in Western Culture
Suleiman, Susan Rubin (ed.) Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, USA
Year Published: 1986
Price: $25 cloth; $9.95 paper
Resource Type: Book
The female body has occupied a central place in the Western imagination, inspiriing both attraction and fear, seen as both beautiful and unclean, alluring and dangerous, a source of pleasure and evil. In this book, twenty-three scholars and critics explore these representations and their implications for contemporary art and culture.
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