Anthropology 260: Culture and Nature
TOPIC V:
Industrialization and Nature:
the 19th and 20th Centuries
Index of Images from Idols of
Perversity*:
- Raptures of Submission: the Shopkeeper's
Soul Keeper and the Cult of the Household Nun
- The Cult of Invalidism; Ophelia and Folly; Dead Ladies and the
Fetish of Sleep
- The Collapsing Woman: Solitary Vice and Restful Detumescence
- The Weightless Woman; the Nymph with the Broken Back; and
the Mythology of Theraputic Rape
- Women of Moonlight and Wax; the Mirror of Venus and the Lesbian
Glass
- Evolution and the Brain:Extinguished Eyes and the Call of
the Child; Homosexuality and the Dream of Male Transcendence
- Clinging Vines and the Dangers of Degeneration
- Poison Flowers; Maenads of the Decadence and the Torrid Wail
of the Sirens
- Gynanders and Genetics; Connoisseurs of Bestiality and Serpentine
Delights; Leda, Circe, and the Cold Caresses of the Sphinx
- Metamorphoses of the Vampire; Dracula and His Daughters
- Gold and the Virgin Whores of Babylon; Judith and Salome:
The Priestesses of Man's Severed Head
Index of Images from Evil Sisters*:
- Introduction
- The Lords of Creation Battle the Vampires of Time
- Vital Essence and Blighting Mildew: Dimorphic Gender
Evolution and the Natural Philosophy of Lust
- A Congo Song in the Heart of Darkness: The Vampire-Woman's
African Genesis
- The Physiology of Vampirism: The Root of All Evil
and the Womb of Production; Seminal Economics and Spermatophagy
- And Fools They Were: The Biology of Racism and the
Iron Law of the Jungle; Love Rituals of the Socialist Vampire
- Real Vampires: The Sexual Woman and Her Allies: Bolsheviks,
Semites, and Eurasians; The Yellow Peril of the Aryan Imagination
- Domesticating The Vampire: Hollywood and Seminal
Economy
- Rigging the Great Race Against the Beautiful and Damned:
The Cultural Genetics of Unclean Women and Emasculate Men
- Dualism Enthroned: Oak Trees and Destroyers; Hitler
and the Hammer of Death; Genocide as Gynecide in the Mythology of Popular
Culture
*Images taken from:
Dijkstra, Bram
1986 Idols of Perversity. New
York: Oxford University Press.
*Images taken from:
Dijkstra, Bram
1996 Evil Sisters. New York: Henry
Holt and Company, Inc.