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Crowning - a sculpture of the Virgin Mary by Esther Strauss Photo: St. Mary's Cathedral / Franz Wurzinger     I.   As a rule, I wouldn...

Lorenzo di Credi: Portrait of Caterina Sforza    (c. 1481-83)   Se io potessi scrivere tutto, farei stupire il mondo!     I.    Nietzsche...

Valentine de Saint-Point by Rossana Borzelli (2016) Acrylic and oil on metal (250 x 125 cm) singulart.com     When one thinks of Futurism, ...

I. Even sexism, it seems, isn't as unambiguous a term as one might have previously believed. For according to some theorists, s...

IV. BB and the Feminine Mystique Four years after de Beauvoir published her fascinating little study of Bardot and the Lolita syn...

Lucia Pica photographed by Daniel Jackson  Vogue (Sept 2015) Like many people, when I heard a couple of years ago that Italian-b...

  Wonder Women  (detail) by Marcus Williams (2017)  marcusthevisual.com Due to the huge commercial and critical succe...

Andy Warhol: Penis  (1977)    Peter Boghossian is a professor of philosophy at Portland State University; James Lindsay, a prolifi...

  Photo of June Miller by Brassaï (c. 1933) Henry Miller's posthumously published novel Crazy Cock , was originally entitled Lov...

Illustration of Gustave Flaubert and Mme. Bovary from online arts and culture magazine Salon http://www.salon.com/2005/08/21/flaub...

Intercourse: The Life and Work of Andrea Dworkin ,  dir. Pratibha Parmar. Presently being filmed in San Francisco and  scheduled for r...

Charlotte Gainsbourg as Joe in the two-part film  Nymphomaniac , dir. Lars von Trier (2013) According to one sexologist, real men...

Witchcraft has traditionally been concerned with the Mysteries and sex has traditionally been regarded as the essence of those Mysterie...

  Sarah Maple: Menstruate With Pride (2010-11) Vaginal lubrication and menstrual blood; saliva, semen, and tears ... these bodily ...

Mary Daly was right to say that anti-feminism is merely the political expression of misogyny. And doubtless the above is intended a...

In his reading of The Scarlet Letter Lawrence offers an interesting theory of how women like Hester Prynne become witches and fall i...

The title for this post was to have been the question of style.  However - it is woman who will be my subject. Still, one might  ...