LoginMyth & Sexuality
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"Our bodies are the cosmos," asserts Highwater; each society's fundamental values and myths predetermine its conception of the human body and sexuality. To classical Greeks, the body was an idealized locus of beauty; to pioneer sexologists influenced by the mechanistic worldview of science, the body was a pleasure-pain machine; in our own era of consumer capitalism, the body is a sexualized commodity. Author of many books on Native American culture, Highwater attempts to map a mythic history of the body in this ambitious, imaginative essay. From egalitarian Neolithic worshippers of the Great Mother through the Greeks'
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Manufacturer: Signet
Release date: 28 February 1991
ISBN-10 : 0452010691 | ISBN-13: 9780452010697
Release date: 28 February 1991
ISBN-10 : 0452010691 | ISBN-13: 9780452010697
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