SCHEHERAZADE AND HER SISTERS: REAL AND IDEAL WOMEN OF THE GILDED AGE - PDF Document
SCHEHERAZADE AND HER SISTERS: REAL AND IDEAL WOMEN OF THE GILDED AGE (or: GILDED AGE ART AND THE POLITICS OF GENDER) By Bram Dijkstra “The Earthly Woman (with a woman’s weakness, and a woman’s faults) seems less fair than her Ideal Image … the primal Ev e of Paradise.”