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For centuries, women have suffered to be beautiful. Amongst women, the passionate quest for beauty and the hardships endured to attain it are still very much alive today. This article attempts to explain the persistence of this tradition by tracing the principal factors which have contributed to the increasing importance attached to feminine beauty since the beginning of the twentieth century and by demonstrating that, as in the past, beauty still confers a real advantage to women.
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In Ben Sira's book, two texts deal with the dangerous beauty of women (25,21 and 9,8). In this article, the author seeks to answer the following questions. What should be understood by “beauty of women”? Why is women's beauty dangerous? How are Ben Sira's discourses on the beauty of women likely to affect gender power relations? Do the warnings about beauty, as we can read them in the Hebrew text of Ben Sira, correspond exactly to the warnings of his grandson, who translated his grandfather's book into Greek? What do the differences tell us about how these two men view the dangerousness of female beauty? Finally, are these warnings simply in keeping with the mentality of their time or are they original?
Keywords: Ben Sira, femme, beauté, machisme
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This article discusses the representation of erotic temptation in the libertine narratives of the eighteenth century. In these, we have authors who use the motif of temptation to explore their characters' psyche while questioning the sanctions that Ancien Régime society imposed on sexuality—notably that of women. Our aim is to show that libertine temptations crystallize the internalization of Evil during the Enlightenment era, when temptation is in fact depicted as originating from a deep, innermost desire rather than an evil outside force. In this testing of his will, the individual discovers he is not the passive plaything of either demons or his own nature. Gifted with free will, he is characterized by his freedom to choose between good and evil, the pleasurable and the reasonable. This is why tempted characters view the Fall itself, despite its dangers, as an experience of freedom, and why temptation, for its part, is presented as a delicious thrill.
Keywords: chute, histoire de la sexualité, introspection, libre arbitre, littérature libertine, philosophie des Lumières, tentation, fall, history of sexuality, introspection, free will, libertine literature, Enlightenment philosophy, temptation
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AbstractABSTRACTBut Isn't It " Sexual " ? The Freudian Slip beneath the Ethnographie GazeIn this paper. I apply some of the concerns and cautions expressed in recent writing about sex and gender to Korean shaman rituals as a specifie problem of ethnographie interpretation and to make a plea for precision lest a hasty labeling of ritual or performance elements as " sexual " or " erotic " foreclose more complex and context-specific interpretations. I begin with a description of some of the ways in which my own writing on Korean shamans has been misinterpreted.While most immediately concerned with the readings that Western audience can impose upon a gendered ethnographie text. I shall also consider représentations of shamans" sexuality in Korean popular culture and shaman discourses about the sexuality of men in an improvisational ritual text. This enterprise is distinct from that of characterizing the sum of shamans' activities as innately " sexual ".Key words : Kendall. shamanism. dance. sexuality. method. Korea