“Economically, legally, and politically powerless throughout much of western history, women have been linked to nature and the unknowable through metaphors of the body while the masculine has signified culture and mental activity.” Has BeensArtBodyCultureActivityWesternMetaphorSexismLinkedPowerlessMasculine Author:Whitney Chadwick
“Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the obvious one for the case in point. Is not crisis itself a concept we owe to Hippocrates? In the social and cultural domain no metaphor is more apt than the pathological one.” CultureSocialCasesImpossibleCivilizationDiseaseConceptsCrisisMetaphorObviousDisorderDomain Author:Johan Huizinga