凶猛的美杜莎:石化，Apotropaic的凝视和美杜莎的母质外阴，旁边的生殖器显示数字

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JOURNAL OF FEMINIST STUDIES IN RELIGION Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.2979/jfs.2023.a893192

Gillian M. E. Alban

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摘要:本文回顾了十篇关于神话美杜莎和生殖器展示人物的文章、书籍和章节，展示了美杜莎的石化和冷漠的目光，以及她吞噬的外阴，或者她的物质力量的眼睛，因为她的头颅显示了她持久的创造力，不屈不挠的力量。在一段历史中，女性受到父权制的审视和恐惧，男性将自己对阉割的恐惧投射到她们身上，而美杜莎的形象却令人震惊地没有被阉割，她坚持自己的力量，并以对这个神话至关重要的反射性行动返回她那冰冷的目光。在男性的凝视下，她的外阴面对着观众，她的灵感来自帕伽索斯的诞生，即使她被强奸和死亡压死。神话中的美杜莎和外阴展示了女性在摆脱惩罚的过程中始终保持着对男性无意识的控制，通过美杜莎令人惊叹的故事和令人目瞪口呆的凝视，她们坚持自己惊人的生育能力，超越了生死。

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The Ferocious Medusa: The Petrifying, Apotropaic Gaze and Matrixial Vulva of Medusa, alongside Genital Display Figures

Abstract: This review of ten articles, books, and chapters on the mythic Medusa and genital display figures illustrates Medusa’s petrifying and apotropaic gaze and her engulfing vulva, or eye blazoning her matrixial force, as her severed head demonstrates her abiding pro-creative, indomitable force. Through a history of women held under scrutiny while feared by patriarchy, with men projecting their own fear of castration onto them, the Medusa figure emerges as stunningly uncastrated, asserting her force and returning her stony gaze in the reflexive action pivotal to this myth. Objectified under the male gaze, her vulva faces the viewer, her inspirational force born through the birth of Pegasus even as she is crushed in rape and death. The mythic Medusa and vulva display women persistently retain their hold on the male unconscious in rising above castigation, asserting their amazing procreative force over life and death, enabled through Medusa’s stunning tale and transfixing gaze.

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