Lot's daughters : sex, redemption, and women's quest for authority
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Lot's daughters : sex, redemption, and women's quest for authority
Stanford University Press, c2005
- : cloth
Available at 3 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-418) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Lot'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.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents for Lot's Daughters Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Lot Complex PART I: THE HERITAGE OF LOT AND HIS DAUGHTERS 2. Telling Examples: The Growing Authority of Lot's Daughters 3. Faithful Interpretations: Lot and His Daughters from the Bible to the Reformation 4. A Family Museum: Visions of Lot and His Daughters 5. Embracing the Daughter: The Riddle of Lot, Shakespeare, and the English Heritage PART II: GENERATING AND REPRESENTING MODERN DAUGHTERS OF LOT 6. Reflections from the Cave: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and Mary Shelley's Mathilda 7. The Cave and the Mask: The BrontA"s 8. The Maiden Tribute: Lot's Daughters Through the Victorian Looking-Glass 9. The Lot of Freud and Dora 10. Shirley Temple: The Daughter as Childstar 11. Woody Allen and Mia Farrow: Lot in the Era of Deconstruction PART III: LOT'S DAUGHTERS AT THE MILLENNIUM: POTOMAC TESTAMENTS 12. Complete Darkness: Carolivia Herron and Thereafter Johnnie 13. The Impeachment of Lot: The Clintons, Lewinsky, and Tripp Notes Index
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