| Description |
xi, 422 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Sunset Boulevard -- Possibilities for Penelope -- Goddesses revealed and obscured: story of Sappho and Phaon -- Wife of Bath as historical prototype -- Aging women, power, and sexuality: from the Wife of Bath to the witch -- Eroticized young male and women's response -- Nineteenth century: Margaret Fuller and Colette - continental and Anglo-American comparisons -- Twentieth century: menopause and its meaning -- Aging and ethnicity: goddesses reconsidered |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references ([359]-408) and index |
| Subject |
Older women -- History.
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Interpersonal relations -- History.
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Young men -- History.
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| LC no. |
91004266 |
| ISBN |
0394579437 |
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