Androgyny and the Denial of Difference

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This book traces the long and complex history of the androgyne throughout Western aesthetics, philosophy, mythology and literature, from Plato to contemporary feminist theory, with particular attention given to the Romantic period It notes that from the classical vision of the androgyne as a symbol of primordial totality and oneness created out of a union of opposed forces to Freud s theory of the libido, the figure has functioned as a conservative, even a misogynistic, ideal Kari Weil shows that, rather than being a synthesis of male and female, the androgyne has been a construction of patriarchal ideology that has served to establish sexual, aesthetic and racial hierarchies. New Download Androgyny and the Denial of Difference Author Kari Weil For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Erasure of intersex people, and Terfy AF Not worthy of anyone s time Seek elsewhere, as there are far betterenlightened Feminist works to be read.

Androgyny and the Denial of Difference
  • English
  • 26 September 2017
  • Paperback
  • 212 pages
  • 0813914051
  • Kari Weil
  • Androgyny and the Denial of Difference