Lot's daughters
Subtitle: sex, redemption, and women's quest for authority
By: Robert M. Polhemus.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
Subjects: Lot -- (Biblical figure); Fathers and daughters; Oedipus complex; Man-woman relationships; Feminism
Other titles: Sex, redemption, and women's quest for authority
Description: This book explores the relationship of fathers and daughters and of older men and younger women in history, life, art, and culture. It 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.--[book jacket].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.