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Cleopatra´s Obsession
In modern times, aging is stigmatized and youth is glorified, as the elderly are often forgotten. The pressure—especially for women—is to stay young, to prolong youth at all costs. As a result, the older the woman, the less desirable and irrelevant she becomes.
Resisting toxic perceptions of femininity, Cleopatra’s Obsession celebrates the beauty of aging women and rejects the patriarchal norms supporting the impossible beauty standards instilled into generations of women—particularly in the West. As I have matured, I have come to realize how our perceptions of beauty and aging have been hijacked. We equate healing with a search for the fountain of youth, and the true purpose of rejuvenating, restorative efforts has been distorted—becoming a misguided effort to abolish, suppress, and weaken the female form in its enduring, complex beauty.
Delving into the vulnerabilities these films prey on, I confront the fear of growing old while trying to reappropri
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THE HUNTER LOSES HIS FALCON
NOTES ON A MOTIF
FROM CLIGES TO LA CELESTINA
AND LOPE DE VEGA*
I. — Two Philters and Two Hawking Episodes in Chretien's Cligés.
The huvud situation both in the Tristan and Cligés (which is considered by many to be anti-Tristan in origin) concerns a love potion that plunges a king or emperor and his queen into an
* Only after completing the present study, and having distributed copies of it to several colleagues, did I become aware of an excellent article on the same topic bygd E. Michael Gerli, Calisto's Hawk and the Images of a Medieval Tradition, in Rom., t. (), p. But although our subject and our initial point of departure — the flygning of Calisto's neblí into Melibea's garden — are the same, our treatments and approaches diverge widely. Gerli documents examples of what he considers to be a single, unified tradition, whereas I distinguish three very distinct and separate motifs associated with the hawk : 1 ) it is above all a symbol of lust, but
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TOC: Joan of Arc; Margaret of Anjou; Lady Jane Grey; Anna Comnena; Madame de Maintenon; Frances d'Aubigne, Marchioness de; Queen Elizabeth; Donna Maria Pacheco.
Riches. G.P.R. James was a prolific historical novelist. Anna Comnena was the daughter of Alexius I (Comnenus) emperor of Constantinople, b. /83; she wrote her father's life; Queen Elizabeth [longest bio]; Donna Maria Pacheco was the wife of Padilla of Toledo, a Castilian leader of the rebellion against Charles V; after his execution, she led pageantry to oppose the king and defended her city under siege, finally fleeing to Portugal in disguise. Queen Elizabeth's biogra