Politics and Aesthetics of the Female Form, 1908-1918 by Georgina Williams

Author:Georgina Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

This can be correlated with Robert ’s comments cited in Chapter 2, thereby indicating the differing ways a woman’s sensuality was addressed and, as can be seen here, often used against her. A supposed support of suffragettes undermined by a declared contempt for women in general is a somewhat irrational premise to uphold, although positioning a female figure as ‘a magnet for sentimental passion or an engine of lust’ underscores the antipathy towards women that includes the risk of a forced dismantling of the pedestal upon which men had placed their “angel”. Marinetti continues:As for the supposed inferiority of woman, we think that if her body and spirit had, for many generations past, been subjected to the same physical and spiritual education as man’s, it might be legitimate to speak of the equality of the sexes. It is obvious, nevertheless, that in her actual state of intellectual and erotic slavery, woman finds herself wholly inferior in respect to character and intelligence and therefore can be only a mediocre legislative instrument. 62

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