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In the personifications of woman as Naked Truth it is no less than reality itself which is finally exposed, so that the secrets of nature / the universe are identified with the secrets of women's bodies, at least at an abstract level.
( from: Ludmilla Jordanova, Sexual Visions, Images of Gender in Science and Medicine between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1989; 96. |