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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Book by Camille Paglia · 5 quotes · Art, Sex, Males

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“Freud says, "Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling." Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant.”