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Oxford University Press, USA (1988), Edition: Early Reprint, Paperback, 480 pages
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In the years around 1900, an unprecedented attack on women erupted in virtually every aspect of culture: literary, artistic, scientific, and philosophic. Many of the anti-feminine platitudes that today still constrain women's potential were first formulated during this period, as intellectuals of every stripe throughout Europe and America banded together to picture women as static beings whose sole function was sexual and reproductive. This text explores the nature and development of turn-of-the-century misogyny in the works of hundreds of writers, artists, and scientists, including such figures as Zola, Strindberg, Wedekind, Henry James, Rossetti, Renoir, Maurois, Klimt, Darwin, and Spencer, not to mention a host of now-forgotten others.
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LibraryThing member Big_Bang_Gorilla
Everybody needs to have a favorite book, and this is mine.
LibraryThing member kencf0618
Talk about anima issues...!
LibraryThing member Equestrienne
There is a certain type of historian who loves to demonize the past. Dijkstra is one of them. He also suffers from the delusion that right now, this moment in history, is the apogee of all human endeavor and every other era suffers by comparison. I think these people represent a very specific type
This book is full of the type of academic bullshit produced by a human being whose relative worth is equal to nipples on a boar hog; trying to convince useful people that the writer's existence is justified. Well, I suppose that's true; shitty books full of misinterpreted social history won't write themselves.
My advice is to avoid the text, the illustrations alone are worthy of a five star review; unfortunately it was the information that dragged the overall rating down to one star. Hey Bram, make yourself useful and go rotate my tires, will ya?
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of narcissist who seem to believe that their personal presence improves the world to the point of perfection never before achieved in any other era.This book is full of the type of academic bullshit produced by a human being whose relative worth is equal to nipples on a boar hog; trying to convince useful people that the writer's existence is justified. Well, I suppose that's true; shitty books full of misinterpreted social history won't write themselves.
My advice is to avoid the text, the illustrations alone are worthy of a five star review; unfortunately it was the information that dragged the overall rating down to one star. Hey Bram, make yourself useful and go rotate my tires, will ya?
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Original publication date
1986
Physical description
480 p.; 10.01 inches
ISBN
0195056523 / 9780195056525