Tag: Giovanni Boccaccio
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What Does Woman Want
Happy wife, happy life. ~ old wives’ tale The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want? ~ Sigmund Freud On se lasse de penser, meme d’agir, jamais on ne…
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The End of Patriarchy
Hypsipyle Giovanni Boccaccio, in On Famous Women, relates the story of the Queen of Lemnos. During the reign of her father, King Thoas, the women rebelled against the patriarchy. Boccaccio describes it: The women were seized by madness and withdrew their untamed necks from the yoke of men. Scorning the old king’s rule, they unanimously…
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Attack Thoughts and Cold Hearts
These tales were not told in a church, where things must be spoken of with the proper frame of mind and suitable words. Nor were they held in schools of the philosophers, where a sense of propriety is required. But they were told in a garden, in a place suited for pleasure, in the presence…