Quotes From "Tales Of Bluebeard And His Wives From Late Antiquity To Postmodern Times" By Shuli Barzilai

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As Atwood concludes after a random and informal sampling, men and women differ markedly in the 'scope of their threatenability': 'Why do men feel threatened by woman?' I asked a male friend of mine..'[ M]en are bigger, most of the time..and they have on the average a lot more money and power.' 'They're afraid women will laugh at them, ' he said. 'Undercut their world view.' Then I asked some women students in a quickie poetry seminar I was giving, 'Why do women feel threatened by men?' 'They're afraid of being killed, ' they said'. Shuli Barzilai
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Power, ' as the sociologist Nachman Ben-Yehuda writes, 'enters the picture in two ways': the first entails constructing and legitimizing the moral system itself; the second, in enforcing it. In this view, 'deviants are those who simply do not have enough power to prevent others from defining them as such'. Shuli Barzilai
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As his dark closet shows, Bluebeard was a collector at heart, and even after dispatching a wife, could not let her fully depart. Shuli Barzilai