he purpose of this study is to investigate the historical conditions that gradually defined subordinating symbols and conflictual values in social relations between the sexes. It shows how snakes and the freezing eyes of Medusa, the most standardized snake woman, held, across the centuries, a strangely vivid place in the visual arts and in the written sources alongside largely negative emotions: fear, anger, scorn and shame.
Introduction
GIALLONGO ANGELA
2017
Abstract
he purpose of this study is to investigate the historical conditions that gradually defined subordinating symbols and conflictual values in social relations between the sexes. It shows how snakes and the freezing eyes of Medusa, the most standardized snake woman, held, across the centuries, a strangely vivid place in the visual arts and in the written sources alongside largely negative emotions: fear, anger, scorn and shame.File in questo prodotto:
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