Title: Idols of Perversity
First published: 1986
Description: In the years around 1900, an unprecedented attack on women erupted in virtually every aspect of culture: literary, artistic, scientific, and philosophic. Many of the anti-feminine platitudes that today still constrain women's potential were first formulated during this period, as intellectuals of every stripe throughout Europe and America banded together to picture women as static beings whose sole function was sexual and reproductive. This text explores the nature and development of turn-of-the-century misogyny in the works of hundreds of writers, artists, and scientists, including such figures as Zola, Strindberg, Wedekind, Henry James, Rossetti, Renoir, Maurois, Klimt, Darwin, and Spencer, not to mention a host of now-forgotten others.
Subjects: Women in art, Arts, Victorian, Sexism in art, Victorian Arts, Women, history, Women, social conditions, Femmes dans l'art, Arts victoriens, Sexisme dans l'art, Kunst, Frau, Fin de siècle, Cultuur, Seksuele afwijkingen, Fantasie, Vrouwen, Art victorien, Nx652.w6 d55 1986, 700/.9/034
LC classification: NX652.W6 D55 1986