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Maternal, Snake-Tailed Foundress Melusine: A Transformative, Monstrously Transgressive Serpent Woman under the Gaze

Alban, Gillian M. E

Journal of feminist studies in religion, 2024-03, Vol.40 (1), p.5-24 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Atlanta: Indiana University Press

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  • Título:
    Maternal, Snake-Tailed Foundress Melusine: A Transformative, Monstrously Transgressive Serpent Woman under the Gaze
  • Autor: Alban, Gillian M. E
  • Assuntos: Analysis ; Feminism ; Gaze ; Mythical creatures ; Portrayals ; Sexuality ; Women ; Women and literature
  • É parte de: Journal of feminist studies in religion, 2024-03, Vol.40 (1), p.5-24
  • Descrição: This article evaluates the fascination of the protean serpent woman or siren Melusine, demonstrating the illustrious heritage of this hybrid foundress of the Lusignan dynasty. Her supernatural achievements are celebrated through history, literature, and culture, despite her betrayal by her weaker husband. As feminine nymph or maternal foundress, Melusine and her achievements serve as exemplary for powerful women. She represents woman castigated as abject, monstrous, and possessed of a terrifying vagina dentata from the voyeuristic male perspective, whose usurping gaze destroys her authority. She yet remains revered and desired for her creative life force and the phallic or hermaphroditic power represented by her tail. Whether as snake-tailed woman in Eden or connected with fertility goddesses or the Virgin Mary, the protean Melusine emerges as a magnetic, sovereign figure in her self-sufficient sexuality. Her transgressive prowess as a theriomorphic, transformative woman breaks through boundaries and overturns debilitating assumptions regarding her sex, blazoning her unruly force. Castigated as Other while revered as divine, her story rises above any slighting gaze to amaze us with her stunning tale or tail, evoking admiration despite all attempts to diminish her.
  • Editor: Atlanta: Indiana University Press
  • Idioma: Inglês
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