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Evil Sisters: The Threat of Female Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Culture
1996
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Livre de Bram Dijkstra · 1996
Genres : Photographie, Littérature et linguistique, Cinéma et télévision, Culture et société, EssaiBram Dijkstra begins this analysis with the 1915 silent film A Fool There Was, in which Theda Bara first embodied our century's vision of the Vamp--kohl-eyed and predatory, seducing respectable men and destroying them with her voracious appetite. Dijkstra makes clear that this wasn't just a vision conjured up by a misogynistic artist but was a point of view shared by turn-of-the-century biologists, gynecologists, psychologists, geneticists, and sociologists, all of whom promoted distorted ideas... Voir plus
