Shrinking Goddess: Power, Myth and the Female Body - Hardcover

Schipper, Mineke

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1908906596 ISBN 13: 9781908906595

Verlag: Saqi Books, 2024

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Wild and strange stories have been told about the female body since antiquity. Ranging from the empowering to the absurd, they have not only survived, but continue to influence modern discourse.
The Shrinking Goddess brings together these myths about the female form - including poisoned hymens and witches with multiple mammalia and traces subsequent male efforts to 'tame' it. Mineke Schipper examines why the first creation figure, Mother Earth, fell out of popular culture, and how women"s bodies have been represented around the world ever since, from the demon daughter of New Mexico with a toothed vagina to the Japanese supermarkets and European festivals where "breast puddings" are still considered delicacies.
Drawing together the vast reservoir of writing and art that shape how women are seen in today"s world, Schipper reclaims the female body as a source of power.

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Mineke Schipper isa cultural historian and writer. She is the author of seven criticallyacclaimed works including Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet: Women inProverbs from Around the World and 

Naked or Covered: A History ofDressing and Undressing Around the World. 

Her writing has been published inThe Times, El Mundo and the Los Angeles Times, among others.Schipper was foreign secretary of Dutch PEN, chair of Index on CensorshipNederland and currently serves as Emeritus Professor of Intercultural LiteraryStudies at the University of Leiden, with visiting professorships in Nigeria,Kenya, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso and China. She received a Royal Order ofKnighthood for her contribution to social and cultural studies. Shelives in the Netherlands.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Saqi Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1908906596
• ISBN 13: 9781908906595
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336
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