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Lot's daughters : sex, redemption, and women's quest for authority / Robert M. Polhemus.
LIBRA HQ755.86 .P64 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Polhemus, Robert M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lot (Biblical figure).
- Lot.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Oedipus complex.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Feminism.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 432 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2005]
- Summary:
- "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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-418) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804750513
- 0804750521
- OCLC:
- 56421936
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